Robert Sarvis, a Libertarian candidate for the U.S. Senate, wants to open the nation’s borders.
“Did you know US population growth is at its lowest since the Great Depression?” he tweeted on April 1. “RT if you support liberalizing our immigration laws.”
“RT,” if you’re wondering, means retweet. That cleared up, we didn’t know that the nation’s population growth had reached an 80-year low.
So we decided to look at data from Sarvis’ primary source: the U.S. Census Bureau. We found mid-year population estimates dating back to 1900.
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In 2012, only 12.6 percent of U.S. women aged 15-44 had children, according to data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s the lowest birth rate in records dating back to 1940. Women in that age group had 3.95 million babies in 2012, a drop of 368,000 births from five years earlier.
Immigration has slowed since the start of this century, but has been rebounding in recent years. In 2001, there was a net increase of nearly 1.2 million immigrants in the U.S. and that dropped to 726,000 in 2009. Last year, there was a net increase of 843,000 foreigners.
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What an asshole thinking his followers are too stupid to know what RT means.
Population is still growing. Rate makes no difference. We need to close the borders.