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For Immediate Release 
Contact: Joanna Taylor ,
202-256-1395
Feb. 3, 2022

**One Year Later, America Has Even More Room to Grow** 

**WASHINGTON, D.C.** - With labor shortages intensifying and
population growth stalling, the message of a paper published last year
is as relevant as ever: Immigration is essential to addressing
America's demographic challenges. 

Room to Grow: Setting Immigration Levels in a Changing America

underscored the need for a forward-looking, evidence-based immigration
system that not only meets the country's current needs but equips us
for the future.  

One year later, as the paper's co-author Danilo Zak writes in an
update
, the
challenges identified in the paper have only intensified - and its
recommendations have become even more prescient. Labor shortages are
increasing , and new
census data

reveal that the country's population grew "at a slower rate in 2021
than in any other year since the founding of the nation." 

"Demographic decline is a problem that will persist and intensify
without decisive action," said

**Danilo Zak, Policy & Advocacy Manager at the National Immigration
Forum** and co-author of the paper. "The Biden administration has
already taken many positive steps forward
to rebuild
our immigration system and to welcome more immigrants. But ultimately,
the task will fall to Congress." 

"In February 2021, we highlighted the challenges our nation will face
without increased immigration. In February 2022, we're seeing just how
quickly these challenges are coming to bear," said

**Ali Noorani, President & CEO of the National Immigration Forum** and
co-author of the paper. "This isn't a cause for pessimism - it's
an impetus for permanent, bipartisan immigration reform."  

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