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U.S. IMMIGRATION — LESSON 4
Immigration has played a strong role in determining the size and contours of the U.S. population throughout the nation’s history. Since the 1960s, immigration has accounted for just over half the country’s population growth and has reshaped its makeup. Future immigration will continue to have an impact on the American landscape.
Immigration has kept the U.S. slightly younger than it would have been, because immigrants have more children than people born in the U.S. In the future, if the potential labor force grows, it will be because of immigration. The working-age population (173 million in 2015) is projected to grow to 183 million by 2035, assuming future immigrants and their children continue to arrive. Without future immigration, the number of Americans of prime working-age – 25 to 64 – would decline to 166 million, according to Pew Research Center projections.
U.S. IMMIGRATION — LESSON 5
So far, we’ve been talking about who immigrants are and how they came to the United States. Now we’ll turn to what Americans think about immigrants and immigration policy, and how their views have changed over time. One major change in recent decades: Americans’ views about immigrants have become more positive overall, but Democrats increasingly have more favorable views than Republicans. White Americans and older Americans, who are more likely to vote Republican, tilt positive but by smaller margins than Americans of other races and those who are younger.
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