Election 2008: What’s At Stake?

In 2007, only 511,000 people immigrated to the United States—about half the average rate since 2000, according to new census data. The foreign-born population even declined in 14 states, and in most others it grew more slowly than the previous year.
What caused this immigration slowdown? Brookings Institution researcher William Frey speculated that the recent [...]

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Newly released census data predicts that non-Hispanic whites will be a minority in the United States by 2042, largely due to immigration, both legal and illegal.
Anti-immigration groups have long pointed to an increase in population as a reason to tighten our borders, and this data has added fuel to that cry. Ira Mehlman, FAIR’s [...]

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