Share Tweet Share Understanding the New 2021 Population Estimates The pandemic caused a temporary reduction in population growth, which was already slowing. By Steven A. Camarota and Karen Zeigler CIS Report, February 10, 2022 Excerpt: The new estimates from the Census Bureau show that the U.S. population grew by nearly 400,000 people between 2020 and 2021, a good deal slower than in the recent past. While population growth has been slowing for some time, the reason for the big slowdown after 2019 was Covid-19, which impacted all three components of population change — births, deaths, and net international migration. As for international migration, the ongoing border surge and the restarting of visa processing at American consulates mean that foreign-born migration will be significantly higher in the coming years. It is very possible that the next set of estimates will show that the U.S.-population grew by 900,000 or even one million between July 1, 2021, and June 30, 2022 — more than twice the growth in the prior year. Podcast Young People and the Immigration Issue Moderator: Mark Krikorian Guests: Jackson Koonce & Marguerite Telford  Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 40 Featured Blog Posts Biden Administration Continues Title 42 Order for Illegal Migrants By Andrew R. Arthur The Covid-19 pandemic (and more specifically the Title 42 orders issued in response thereto) would give the Biden administration the perfect excuse to release tens of thousands of illegal migrants — whom by law it is supposed to be detaining — into the United States. WSJ Editorial Board Applauds Biden’s Cheap Foreign Labor Increase By Robert Law Of the 474 unique occupations defined by the Department of Commerce, just 6 occupations are majority immigrant and in these occupations Americans still account for 46 percent of workers. Mexico and Northern Triangle Have Highest Percentage of ICE Detainers By David North While the relation between crime rates and detainer rates is not an apples-to-apples correlation, a much more determined enforcement policy at our southern border is obviously needed. Yuma Reveals How the Migrant Surge Has Fueled America’s Drug Crisis By Andrew R. Arthur Drug seizures in the Yuma sector fell more than 70 percent between FY 2020 and FY 2021 because apprehensions of illegal migrants there increased by more than 1,200 percent during the same period. More Blog Posts Biden Wants More Money for Costly and Ineffective ‘Alternatives to Detention’ USCIS Mission Statement Rewrite Drops Vetting and ‘Protecting Americans’ as Core Values Ninth Circuit Strikes Part of the Alien Smuggling and Harboring Statute Donate Copyright © 2022 Center for Immigration Studies, All rights reserved.  Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. View this e-mail in your browser.