A new analysis of immigrants in America, both legal and illegal, revealed that America’s foreign-born population has hit an all-time high.
The Center for Immigration Studies released the report showing that the U.S. now has 42.1 million foreign-born nationals, which is being primarily driven by Mexican immigration. That is the largest percent of immigrants in the overall population since 1910.
It also means that well over one million are coming into the country every year considering some return home or pass away.
“For the immigrant population to increase by one million means that significantly more than one million new immigrants must enter the country because some immigrants already here return to their homeland each year, and natural mortality totals 250,000 annually,” reported CIS.
CIS also stated that this should have been easy to predict given how the Obama administration has not been enforcing immigration laws.
“The rapid growth in the immigrant population was foreseeable given the cutbacks in enforcement, our expansive legal immigration system, and the improvement in the economy. But the question remains, is it in the nation’s interest?” said Steven Camarota, co-author of the report and the Center for Immigration’s director of research.
Some of the highlights of the report include the fact that since the second quarter of 2011 to the second quarter of 2015, the population of foreign-born nationals increased to 4.1 million, including 1.7 million in just the last year.
Mexican immigration surged last year, accounting for 740,000 people or 44 percent of the total foreign-born population. The total population of Mexican nationals has reached 12.1 million, nearly the same number of immigrants that came through Ellis Island from 1892 to 1954.
The Department of Homeland Security estimates that eight in 10 illegal immigrants are from Central and South America.
These numbers should help inform the political class, who repeatedly predicts the demise of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, as to why the billionaire is resonating on a platform of immigration restriction.
(h/t Washington Examiner)
