Construction continues on December 14, 2020, on a new border wall system project west of Douglas, Arizona, within U.S. Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector. As of December 11, over 425 miles of new border wall system have been built along the southwest border in place of outdated designs, or in locations where no barriers previously existed. (CBP photo by Jerry Glaser).
Newly released information from the Census Bureau details just how well Donald Trump did at curbing immigration into the U.S. Despite years of the Biden-Harris administration allowing in record numbers of immigrants, the total number of immigrants in the country is still fewer than was projected before Trump was elected. What that means is, Trump was so effective at reducing immigration, that even the best efforts of Biden-Harris to “catch up” to the previous projections with hordes of new arrivals, have failed. But that won’t be the case if they are allowed to remain in the White House. Eventually the powerful lead Trump gave America in the fight against overwhelming immigration will be eroded and eliminated by radical progressive efforts to import as many foreigners as possible to fundamentally alter the culture and politics of the United States forever. Cato Institute’s David J. Bier explains the Census Bureau statistics to readers, writing:
New numbers from the Census Bureau’s mini-census, the American Community Survey (ACS), show that the immigrant population is increasing but is still below the Census Bureau’s projections made in 2017 (the year the Trump administration started to radically alter the course of immigration for four years). The ACS is the largest survey of the US population, allowing it to report the most accurate assessment of demographic trends in the United States. The new numbers show:
- The share of the US population who are immigrants—legal and illegal—rose just 0.4 percentage points, from 13.9 percent to 14.3 percent from July 2022 to July 2023;
- the total immigrant population increased by 1.6 million, the largest single-year increase since 2006;
- from July 2020 to July 2023, the immigrant population increased just 3 million—less than 1 percent of the US population;
- despite the increase, the number of immigrants in 2023 was 1 million lower than what the Census Bureau projected in 2017 would be the case today;
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