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U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY LIKELY TO BOOST POPULATION

US Immigration Policy Likely to Boost Population, an article by Joseph Chamie, originally appeared on YaleGlobal on July 30, 2009. While we realize it is slightly dated, the message it contains is so vitally important to the efforts of NPG that we wish to expose these ideas to as wide an audience as possible.

Rarely do we hear anyone in a position of authority making the connection between US immigration policy and our nation’s extraordinary population growth. Joseph Chamie, former director of the United Nations Population Division and the current director of research at the Center for Migration Studies, makes his point early in the article, and with a very clear voice: “Contrary to popular thought, the dominant force fueling America’s demographic growth is not natural increase, but immigration.â€