Expert: Legal Immigration System to Add 100M Foreign-Born People to U.S. Population in Next 50 Years

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Expert: Legal Immigration System to Add 100M Foreign-Born People to U.S. Population in Next 50 Years

January 17th, 2018

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Expert: Legal Immigration System to Add 100M Foreign-Born People to U.S. Population in Next 50 Years

Breitbart
January 16, 2018

Under the current U.S. legal immigration system, whereby more than one million legal immigrants are admitted into the country every year, about 100 million foreign-born people are expected to be added to the population over the next 50 years, an immigration expert says.

In an interview on SiriusXMs Breitbart News Sunday, hosted by Breitbart News Political Editor Matt Boyle and Deputy Political Editor Amanda House, Center for Immigration Studies Director of Research Steven Camarota said the U.S. foreign-born population is expected to grow to unprecedented levels in the next 50 years, should Congress and President Trumps administration not cut current legal immigration levels and reform the process to one that brings in English-proficient and skilled immigrants.

CAMAROTA: Well, the first thing is, if immigration policies arent changed, everybody agrees that at least over the next 50 years, immigration will add about 100 million people to the U.S. population, if you just take it out, 50 years. Thats the arrival of about 1.5, 1.6 million new legal and illegal immigrants over the next 50 years, thats sort of what the Census Bureau is projecting. That will add about 100 million, thats their children, them, plus their children, taking into account the people who go home, plus mortality. [Emphasis added]

So as terms as its impact on American life, thats probably the first thing, the country becomes much more densely settled, much more populated, and remember, only about 60 counties in the United States, two-thirds, three-fourths of all the people end up in just those 60 counties or so. So thats an enormous impact on the quality of life in an area like Washington, D.C., you know it might add half a million people to the U.S. population or the county of the D.C. metro area even over the next 30 or 40 years. That certainly does mean a lot more congestion and traffic and so forth. [Emphasis added]