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The green
section of the graphic is the future that millions of Americans began
to create in the early 1970s when they decided -- on average -- to have
families at replacement size (about two children per family).
But the red
shows the extra population Congress added through above-replacement-level
immigration.
You can see
that if Congress had allowed immigration at replacement-level numbers
since 1970 to match the American people's replacement-level fertility,
we would be living much less congested lives today. U.S. population would
never have risen as high as it already is today. We would have to be building
schools, roads, houses and infrastructure at a far slower pace.
But the green
on this graphic is a future that has been forever destroyed by Congress
through its decisions to dramatically increase immigration numbers to
force mass U.S. population growth at an unprecedented level.
Click here to view the history of Traditional Levels of Immigration in the U.S. prepared by NumbersUSA. (PDF)
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Questions
about the illustration above
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What does the green
block mean?
• How was the green block calculated?
• How
high would U.S. population have gone without above-replacement-level
immigration?
• What would it feel like if we were today living in the green
scenario displayed above?
• If the chart had been started at any other
date in U.S. history, wouldn't it have looked very similar?
• Why has the green block grown during a time when Americans have
had a
below-replacement- level fertility?
• Total U.S. population?
• New immigrants and
descendants?
• Does the red block include illegal
aliens?
• Why do these charts start
at the 203-million level?
• Why do these charts start
at 1970?
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