The foreign-born population in the United States, legal and illegal, has surged to at least 49.5 million. The total number, accurate to October, takes foreigners to their highest share of the U.S. population since records began.
The foreign-born population has increased by 4.5 million since Joe Biden was inaugurated, meaning foreigners now account for a greater share of the U.S. population than 25 individual U.S. states. The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), which compiled the figures, believes 2.5 million of these 4.5 million were illegal immigrants.
Importantly, the 4.5 million increase is a net figure, with emigration and deaths among foreign residents subtracted from total arrivals.
Joe Biden appears to be accelerating mass migration even faster than his former boss, Barack Obama. Under the 44th President, whose own father was a Kenyan non-citizen, the foreign-born population grew by 68,000 a month. Biden has increased this to 137,000 a month.
Under Donald Trump, the increase was much lower, at 42,000 a month.
“[Fifteen] percent of the U.S. population is now foreign-born – the largest share on record. The prior record was 14.8 percent, 133 years ago in 1890,” the CIS noted in its report.
“If legal and illegal immigration were to continue at the current level, we project that the total foreign-born population will reach nearly 59 million and 17.3 percent of [the] population by the end of Biden’s second term in December 2028,” they added.
