Could Foreigners Make Up One-Third of the US Population?

Some estimates of the foreign-born population in this country run as high as 130,000,000. That isn’t outlandish. We have had an open-door policy, innumerable ways to come in legally, or through a temporary entrance that becomes permanent; and then there are the people flying in who never leave. On top of that, we have anchor babies and chain migration. Americans have no clue how many anchor babies are living abroad. We also have millions of green card holders. Could one-third of our population be immigrants? It probably is possible. However, Pew Research pegs it at 53.3 million, which is 15% of the U.S. population, but it’s probably an underestimate because we haven’t a clue how many snuck into the country under Joe Biden and presidents before him, who found innumerable ways to open the ga