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FAIR Report Shows Immigration Driving Massive U.S. Population Growth
Source: Immigration Report

Between 1970 and 2004, U.S. population grew from 200 million to 300 million — a 50 percent increase — driven largely by mass immigration and their U.S.-born children. According to the study, Immigrant Stock's Share of U.S. Population Growth 1970-2004, if current immigration and fertility patterns among immigrants continues, America's population is likely to reach the half billion plateau by mid-century, with nearly all of the increase attributable to post-1970 immigration.

The early 1970s, when the current wave of mass immigration began, coincided with the release of a report of the blue ribbon Rockefeller Commission, which asserted that no national interests would be served by population growth beyond the 200 million level existing at that time. The unprecedented immigration that occurred since has benefited a small number of special interests, while causing social, economic and environmental distress for the vast majority of Americans.

The authors of the new FAIR analysis of post-1970 immigration, Joy Lee, Jack Martin and Stan Fogel, note while the impact of the past 35 years of irresponsible immigration policies cannot be undone, we need not compound our errors by perpetuating failed immigration policies. "We can reach rational decisions about where this nation is headed in the next 35 years and beyond. It all hinges on our willingness to address immigration policies, or whether we allow those policies to dictate the future to us," write the authors.

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