USA IS OLDER AND DIVERSE

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The US Census Bureau projects a much older, and more diversified America in 2100 following three immigration scenarios.

https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-census-2020-7264a653037e3…

https://apnews.com/article/us-births-2022-pandemic-61da497183e03b80f236…

https://apnews.com/article/census-demographics-population-age-race-ethn…

According to Associated Press reports: Experts say that predicting immigration trends is more difficult than in the past when migration was tightly linked to the pull of economic opportunity in the U.S.

When immigration is instead driven by the push of climate change, social tensions exacerbated by authoritarian rulers and gangs, as well as fluctuating anti-immigrant sentiment in the U.S., it is harder to predict, said Manuel Pastor, a professor of sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.

“In the past, we would say we get immigration from economics, and you can make some reasonable projections,” Pastor said. “Now, we have these push pressures for people to come to the U.S., and we have a further racialized reaction to migration, we have a much wider band or error, or the potential to make mistakes.”  https://apnews.com/article/growth-population-demographics-race-hispanic…