WASHINGTON (AFP) - Immigration will drive the population of the United States sharply upward between now and 2050, and will push whites into a minority, projections by the Pew Research Center showed Monday.
"If current trends continue, the population of the United States will rise to 438 million in 2050, from 296 million in 2005," an increase of nearly 50 percent, the study by the Washington-based think-tank said.
More than 80 percent of the increase will be due to immigrants arriving in the country and their US-born children, who will make up nearly one in five Americans by 2050 compared with one in eight in 2005, it said.
Whites, who currently make up around two-thirds of the US population, will become a minority (47 percent) by 2050, the report said.
The Hispanic population, currently the largest minority group, will triple in size and double in percentage terms from 14 percent in 2005 to 29 percent in 2050, the report said.
The Asian population will roughly double in percentage terms, from five percent to nine percent, while the black population will remain static at around 13 percent.
The projections are based on trends over the past 50 years, during which legal and illegal immigration have played an increasing role in US population growth, the report said.
From 1960 to 2005, new immigrants and their US-born descendants accounted for 51 percent of population increase, and for 58 percent from 1980 to 2005, the report said. But, the report warned, "possible future changes in immigration policy" could impact the projections.
Illegal immigration has become a top issue in the race for the US presidency, especially among Republican candidates, most of whom favor of a crackdown.
Take a few minutes to watch this video. It is VERY enlightening.
This country is on a path to destroy itself in the next 200 years if it isn't stopped. Take a second to think about the fact that this is still a relatively new country... an experiment in Democracy, if you will... if it continues down this road, the experiment will fail.
Exactly, Motherof2... that's what I meant when I said that we are on a path to destroy ourselves. I know it sounds dumb now, but what will it be like in 50 years around here? What about a hundred years, or two hundred?
I think the illegals just might get the reconquista after all.
Then what will they do with who is left? Deport them?
It scares me, not for myself, but for my kids and grandkids.
Exactly, Motherof2... that's what I meant when I said that we are on a path to destroy ourselves. I know it sounds dumb now, but what will it be like in 50 years around here? What about a hundred years, or two hundred?
I think the illegals just might get the reconquista after all.
Then what will they do with who is left? Deport them?
It scares me, not for myself, but for my kids and grandkids.
Help me to understand your point, are you saing that if whites become the minority, that this country will be destroyed frrom with in because who has the majority of people. Or is that just an opinion you wanted to share from a news letter. Or is it that they are not smart enough to stop what the majority of america has started with free commerce of labor trade for profit?
You lost me after "help me to undestand your point".
But, what I was saying was this: If America is overran by illegals, then America as we know it will cease to exist, and our country will become just like theirs... you know, the one's they had to escape from because they are such $*!* holes (the countries, not the people).