Former President Donald Trump was infamous for his cruelty and hostility to immigrants, asylum seekers, and refugees from around the world. He slashed refugee admissions to their lowest levels in decades, and justified it with a simple message: “Our country is full.”
But according to Vox, a new trove of data from the Census Bureau lays this bare as a lie. Not only is America not “full,” its population growth is in catastrophic slowdown — and dependent on immigration to maintain its society and government in its current form.
“Economists broadly agree that population growth fuels economic growth in wealthy countries,” wrote Nicole Narea. “But the recently released census figures show the US population grew by just 7.4 percent, or 331.5 million people, between 2010 and 2020 — the lowest rate since the 1930s. Projections suggest that, unless current trends change, those numbers could continue to diminish dramatically over the next two to three decades, with the population growing by just 78 million by 2060.” Continue reading.