Border Boom: U.S. 2022 Population Growth Almost Entirely Driven by Immigration

International migration, including mass illegal migration, largely drove America’s population growth in 2022. I guess that after encouraging Americans to contracept and abort their progeny out of existence to the extent that the United States faces a dangerous population collapse, the radical left “fixed” the problem by allowing anyone and everyone to pour across the southern U.S. border. What was that old phrase about two wrongs not making a right?

“The U.S. population grew by 1.2 million people this year, with growth largely driven by international migration, and the nation now has 333.2 million residents,” said the Associated Press (AP), via the Corvallis Gazette-Times. The statistics come from the U.S. Census Bureau. With the looming end of Trump-era border restrictions, the already record numbers of illegal migrants is likely to become an “avalanche.”

The new statistics also show that leftism is causing mass migration of a different kind, since “the Northeast lost almost 219,000 people in a trend largely driven by domestic residents moving out of New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts, as well as deaths outpacing births in Pennsylvania.” Crime-ridden Chicago also seems to be inspiring some population shift: “The Midwest also lost almost 49,000 residents, driven in part by people moving out of Illinois and deaths outpacing births in Ohio.”

Besides New York, California had the biggest annual population decline, losing a net of over 113,000 residents with its loss of 343,000 domestic residents, contributing to a much lower population increase overall in the West.