"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."

Aldus Huxley

Quick Facts

The Census Bureau projects that U.S. population will double this century, practically within the lifetimes of children born today. 70% of this doubling will be due to mass immigration - that is, due to new immigrants and their descendents. For more information, see U.S. data. For an easily read presentation of the facts, go to NumbersUSA.com, and review the information presented on the right hand side of the page.

Colorado currently has 4.3 million residents and is the third-fastest growing state in the U.S. Colorado is suffering from overcrowded schools, and traffic, congestion, smog, and sprawl. Every hour, ten acres of our farmland and open space are lost to development.

• Immigration from 1925 to 1965 averaged 178,000 per year. Now, we're taking in approximately 1.1 million legal immigrants and up to 700,000 illegal aliens annually3.
  
  
• Under current policy, U.S. population will double this century - practically within the lifetimes of today's children - and will continue to grow2.
  
  
• In 1995, only 5% of legal immigrants were skilled workers.
  
  
• 72% of Black Americans want immigration reduction. See polls.
  
  
• 1.3 million acres, an area the size of Delaware, are being black topped each year.
  
  
• Immigration made sense when we were an empty continent, not now when the ecological carrying capacity of the U.S. is being stretch to its limit5.
  
  
• Immigrants accounted for more than 45 percent of the growth in Colorado's population in the past two years1. An estimated 33.1 million immigrants now live in the United States, about 11.5 percent of the total population, according to the report's figures, based on still-unreleased U.S. Census Bureau data collected in March 20022.
  

In Colorado, the number of immigrants has grown from 8.6 percent of the population two years ago to just under 10 percent now. Of the 165,000 residents new to Colorado between April 2000 and March 2002, 75,000 were born outside the United States, according to Center for Immigration Studies7.
Almost 52 percent of immigrant families earn less than two times the official poverty level, while that rate among U.S.-born households is 21.6 percent. Nearly 20 percent of immigrant-headed households in Colorado receive some form of welfare benefit.6

• A new report by the Center for Immigration Studies concludes that over 33 million legal immigrants and illegal aliens now live in the United States, an increase of 2 million immigrants since the recent April 2000 Census7. How significant is an increate of 33 million people?
  
• 33 million is larger than the current population of Canada.
   
• 33 million is the combined populations of the 20 largest cities in the U.S in 2000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau: New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, Dallas, San Antonio, Detroit, San Jose, Indianapolis, San Francisco, Jacksonville, Columbus, Austin, Baltimore, Memphis, and Milwaukee.
   
• 33 million people in the U.S. would require over 12 million housing units8, would require 15.8 million more passenger cars9, and would consume about 825 million barrels of oil a year (25 barrels per person per year). 33 million Americans will consume all of the economically recoverable oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in less than four years time.10
   
• 33 million people can be expected to consume 2.26 billion cubic feet of round wood per year (80 cubic feet per person). Over 75 million acres of forest will be needed to supply 33 million people with their paper and wood needs.11
  
• Post 1970 immigrants and their descendants have added more than 55 million people to our country; this is the equivalent of absorbing all of Central America in thirty years. Yet Central America's, Mexico's, and China's populations have grown even larger. Clearly, we are not able to address the world's problems by attempting to absorb their excess population.
  
• The Population Reference Bureau projects the U.S. will add 140 million people to it population between 2002 and 2050, thus increasing the population of the U.S from 287 million to 420 million12.
  
• In 2002, the fertility rate of the U.S. was higher than that of 70 other countries, "including less developed China, Korea and Thailand." Indeed, four other less developed countries also have a fertility rate lower than that of the U.S.: Iran, Cuba, Singapore, and Sri Lanka.
  
• Former U.S. Census Bureau demographer Jeffrey Passel (now with the Urban Institute) issued a conservative estimate there are "at least 8.5 million undocumented foreigners in the United States." This means that the population of illegal aliens in the U.S. is larger than the population of any one of the following 41 states: Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Massachusetts, Indiana, Washington, Tennessee, Missouri, Wisconsin, Maryland, Arizona, Minnesota, Louisiana, Alabama, Colorado, Kentucky, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Connecticut, Iowa, Mississippi, Kansas, Arkansas, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, West Virginia, Nebraska, Idaho, Maine, New Hampshire, Hawaii, Rhode Island, Montana, Delaware, South Dakota, North Dakota, Alaska, Vermont, or Wyoming.
   
• About 70 percent of the foreign-born population in the U.S. in 2000 entered the U.S. after 1980, and more than 40 percent entered the U.S. after 1990. The Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy discussed in 1980 implementing a cap on immigrant admissions of 425,000 per year. In 1982 the "Bumpers Amendment" to cap legal immigrant admissions at this level was nearly passed by the U.S. Senate.13 Yet it did not pass, in good part because some senators believed the numbers to be still too high and opposed amnesties for illegal aliens. In 1986, however, an amnesty did pass with no cap on legal immigrant admissions. Today legal immigration alone into the U.S. is running at over twice the level called for in the above-mentioned "Bumpers Amendment".
  
• Approximately one out of five babies born in the U.S. in 2000 had a foreign-born mother.