The U.S. immigrant population is projected to increase by 715% from its 1970 level â hitting 78.2 million by 2060, Census data show. In the previous 50 years, the immigrant population in the U.S. actually fell from 13.9 million to 9.6 million, even as the nationâs total population roughly doubled.
Today, the foreign-born population is already at an all-time high of …