By editor
Originally published on Wed May 22, 2013 11:42 am
New data from the Census Bureau projects that immigration will be the main driver of United States population growth sometime between 2027 and 2038, surpassing births on U.S. soil.
Exactly when that will happen is hard to pin down, because so much depends on immigration policy and global economics.
But assuming it does happen, it’ll be the first time since at least 1850, when the Census started collecting information about where U.S. residents were born.
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