Immigrant families will drive 88 percent of future population growth

If current trends continue, the share of U.S. population growth made up of immigrant families will grow to 88 percent in the decades ahead. That’s a striking statistic even for the majority of Americans who feel multiculturalism makes the nation a better place.

As the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act marks its 50-year anniversary this weekend, Pew Research reports that the already large immigrant share of U.S. population growth is slated to snowball over the next half century.

From the research group:

Fifty years after passage of the landmark law that rewrote U.S. immigration policy, nearly 59 million immigrants have arrived in the United States, pushing the country’s foreign-born share to a near record 14%. For the past half-century, these modern-era immigrants and their descendants have accounted for just over half the nation’s population growth and have reshaped its racial and ethnic composition.

Looking ahead, new Pew Research Center U.S. population projections show that if current demographic trends continue, future immigrants and their descendants will be an even bigger source of population growth. Between 2015 and 2065, they are projected to account for 88% of the U.S. population increase, or 103 million people, as the nation grows to 441 million.

Pew reported that at current rates, non-Hispanic whites will make up less than half of the U.S. population by 2055, at which point it will begin becoming more difficult to recognize any clear racial majority in the nation.

A separate poll from Rasmussen suggests that most Americans would view the changing racial makeup of the nation as a positive, with 44 percent of respondents saying that multiculturalism is good for America. That’s compared to 26 percent who said multiculturalism hurts the nation and 15 percent who said it neither hurts nor improves the U.S.

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