Immigration into the US from central & south America has been steadily going down for years now. The demographic change is mostly due to differences in birthrates, not even whittling down immigration to 0 will change this.
This is nothing that increased immigration can't solve. Immigration has insulated the US from the age curve that has afflicted most Western nations for generations.
Can you provide a source for that? I tried finding information showing a decrease in legal immigration, but couldn't find any statistics that were current.
Birth rates are low but population continues to grow. The US is still a nation of immigrants, once we accept that with our Immigration laws we'll be fine.
2021 saw a huge drop in immigration according to census data as well. You are correct that immigration was a large factor why the population grew overall.
Strict immigration policies during the previous presidency combined with the pandemic have led to record low immigration. Census projections generally expected immigration levels to remain constant. However, immigration plummeted from a net gain of ~1000k/year in 2016 to ~250k/year in 2020[1].
There's been no "surge" in immigration, except in the very short term where migration caught up with the backlog due to the pandemic. There was a steady increase of the foreign-born population fraction between 1970 and ~2010, and it's been essentially flat since then. This site has a great graph about half way down: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/frequently-requested...
You keep doing this thing where you cite headlines that cover half of your idea and then claiming that they support the whole, and they just don't. Yes, US birth rates are dropping (among both native-born and immigrant populations). No, that doesn't have anything to do with immigration per se, nor is it response to the (correct) point that the population is growing.
Not in Canada though, or at least not in the big cities. If it weren't for immigration our population would be in decline (especially once the baby boomers start dying off).
We accept fewer immigrants now than before. Immigration has thus far kept the percentage change of population positive, despite the fact that the number of Green Cards issued had been declining even before the pandemic. The most recent census recorded one the lowest percentages of population growth. And our low population density indicates we have plenty of room.
The issue is that most of the countries from which the US draws immigrants are going through the demographic transition themselves. The US will remain a relatively desired destination for immigration, but there will be many fewer migrants. And as the demographic transition happens in those countries, the demand for would-be migrants' labor will be higher, resulting in improved compensation and less reason to emigrate.
Mostly due to the recent US economic downturn and the poor distribution of the returns of the subsequent aggregate expansion beyond the upper classes. That's probably not a durable trend unless the US economy continues to be miserable for all but the elites.
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