Source: Jed Kolko, WRAL, 4/18/19


As the United States debates the right levels of immigration — and whether, as President Donald Trump suggested, there is room for much more of it — new census data shows that international migration is keeping population growth above water in much of the country. Although international migration dropped in 2017 and 2018, it accounted for nearly half of overall U.S. population growth in 2018 as birthrates declined and death rates rose.

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