A Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) report published Monday shows there were more immigrants – at least 43.7 million – in the United States in 2016 than ever before.
The analysis, based on the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2016 American Community Survey (ACS), includes both legitimate immigrants and illegal aliens. Because of a separate Department of Homeland Security report about the ACS numbers, CIS, a pro-American anti-mass migration think tank, estimates the real figure is even higher, at 45.6 million.
Never before has America sustained such a large foreign-born population. As recently as 1970, just before the epoch-defining Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, popularly known as the Hart-Cellar Act after its co-sponsors Rep. Phillip Hart (D-MI) and Rep. Emanuel Cellar (D-NY) began fundamentally transforming patterns of migration to the United States, there were fewer than 10 million immigrants, including illegals, in the country. – READ MORE
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