Joe Capitalist
Racism is a disease
No, America is not seeing an unprecedented surge in immigration. New Census data prove it.
5:07 am EDT Oct. 3, 2023
https://apple.news/AlNF3FnqsR-m7fGYWov8Yzw
The Census Bureau this month published its most robust estimate of the U.S. immigrant population, and it casts doubt on a central Republican criticism of President Joe Biden: that immigration has spiraled out of his control on his watch.
In fact, the*new data – analyzed by our team at the Cato Institute – indicate that the number of immigrants is still 2 million below the Census Bureau’s 2017 predictions. The hyperbolic rhetoric should take a backseat to the verifiable data.*
Take Stephen Miller, former adviser to President Donald Trump. By July 2022, he had already*announced*that President Biden had “eradicated his own nation’s borders.”
Of course, this is a goofy conspiracy theory. Borders divide governmental jurisdictions, which it should go without saying haven’t changed, and they have nothing to do with the number of people who cross them. But the new Census data make this claim laughable for another reason: The immigrant population had only risen marginally.
Immigrant share of U.S. population is just 13.9%
According to the American Community Survey (the Census Bureau’s annual mini-census), the immigrant share of the U.S. population rose just 0.3 percentage points between July 2021 and July 2022, reaching 13.9%.
If a shift of 0.3 percentage points can eradicate the United States as a country, the Trump administration must have left the United States in worse shape than anyone thought. Fortunately, it is the political rhetoric that is in worse shape, not the country.
5:07 am EDT Oct. 3, 2023
https://apple.news/AlNF3FnqsR-m7fGYWov8Yzw
The Census Bureau this month published its most robust estimate of the U.S. immigrant population, and it casts doubt on a central Republican criticism of President Joe Biden: that immigration has spiraled out of his control on his watch.
In fact, the*new data – analyzed by our team at the Cato Institute – indicate that the number of immigrants is still 2 million below the Census Bureau’s 2017 predictions. The hyperbolic rhetoric should take a backseat to the verifiable data.*
Take Stephen Miller, former adviser to President Donald Trump. By July 2022, he had already*announced*that President Biden had “eradicated his own nation’s borders.”
Of course, this is a goofy conspiracy theory. Borders divide governmental jurisdictions, which it should go without saying haven’t changed, and they have nothing to do with the number of people who cross them. But the new Census data make this claim laughable for another reason: The immigrant population had only risen marginally.
Immigrant share of U.S. population is just 13.9%
According to the American Community Survey (the Census Bureau’s annual mini-census), the immigrant share of the U.S. population rose just 0.3 percentage points between July 2021 and July 2022, reaching 13.9%.
If a shift of 0.3 percentage points can eradicate the United States as a country, the Trump administration must have left the United States in worse shape than anyone thought. Fortunately, it is the political rhetoric that is in worse shape, not the country.