Census: 30% of U.S. population growth will be immigrants, 78 million by 2060

By Paul Bedard

Published December 19, 2014 6:13pm ET

Immigration into the United States will continue at a historic pace for the next several decades, bringing the total number of foreign-born citizens to 78 million by 2060, according to the Census Bureau.

In a new series of new projections released this month, the Census said that the growth of immigrants in the United States will surge 81 percent from the current 43 million.