U.S. is home to more foreign-born people than the entire European Union

The latest of a series of Senate Judiciary Committee reports aimed at shining light on the United States’ liberal immigration policies reveals that the nation is currently home to 45.8 million foreign-born citizens. That’s nearly 11 million more than the immigrant population of the entire European Union, where many nations are opting to shut their borders.

From the report:

Both the United States and the E.U. — particularly the wealthiest nations in the E.U. — are struggling with the economic and societal effects of unmitigated immigration. Yet, even though the United States has taken in nearly 11 million more migrants born outside its boundaries than the E.U. has taken in from outside its own, American politicians are pushing to increase immigration while many E.U. nations are pushing to reduce it.

According to the Judiciary Committee, which is chaired by Alabama Republican Jeff Sessions, the EU immigrant population tops out at 35 million.

The committee explained:

The ten most populous countries in the E.U. (Germany, UK, France, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Poland, and Romania) contain about 415 million of the E.U.’s 500-million plus residents. These ten E.U. countries are home to 28 million people born outside the E.U. — or nearly 20 million fewer people than the number of people in the U.S. born outside the U.S. (Even including intra-E.U. migration, these 10 countries still have nearly 3 million fewer migrants than the U.S. despite having a population nearly 100 million larger than the U.S.) As a share of population, roughly 1 in 15 residents of these countries were born outside the E.U., again compared to nearly 1 in 7 U.S. residents being born outside the U.S.

To put the U.S.’s immigration growth into perspective, the Judiciary report pointed out that just 1 in 20 people in the U.S. were foreign-born in 1970.

The number of foreign-born people living in Latin America is much lower than both the U.S. and the EU, at just 7.75 million. Remarkably, the EU and Latin America combined still have fewer foreign-born people living within the borders of their respective nations than does the U.S.

The report noted that the rampant U.S. population growth is bad for everyone living in the nation, saying:

Assuming no law is passed to reduce the annual immigration rates, Census Bureau projects that the foreign-born population share in the United States will soon eclipse every prior record, and will continue rising to new all-time records every year to come — lowering wages for today’s workers, both immigrant and U.S.-born.

The report comes as the Obama continues to mull allowing thousands more refugees from Syria and other Middle Eastern nations to resettle in the United States.

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