Immigration Legal and Otherwise Major Factor in US Population Growth

“Sometime today — Tuesday, October 17, 2006 — the population of the United States will top 300 million, joining China and India as the only nations on the planet to reach that plateau. That’s according to estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Analysts say the baby whose birth marks the historic event is entering a country that is far different than it was 30 years ago — and a country that will continue to change.

In 1970, immigrants constituted less than five percent of the U.S. population — but that has changed dramatically. Carl Haub with the Population Reference Bureau explains. “A little bit over half of U.S. population growth today comes from immigration and then the children of immigrants, the births they have after they arrive,” he says.”

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