Question: Where does the Census Bureau say we're heading by 2060?

We will have 459 million Americans, not counting illegal aliens. This is an increase of more than 250 million from 1970, the vast majority of which is due to immigrants and their offspring. This is a future which DOES NOT have to happen but is inevitable UNLESS Congress cuts immigration.

Since America’s founding in 1776 until 1965, immigration varied widely but averaged around 230,000 a year. This was a phenomenal flow of immigration into a single country unmatched in world history. During large parts of that period, the United States - with vast expanses of virtually open land - was much better able than today to absorb 230,000 newcomers annually. In 1970 the first “Earth Day” was celebrated to bring attention to the effects of population growth, and over-population, on the environment. 

On March 27, 1972 the “Commission on Population Growth and the American Future” sent a report President Nixon stating, “We have looked for, and have not found, any convincing economic argument for continued population growth. The health of our country does not depend on it, nor does the vitality of business nor the welfare of the average person.”

In the 1970s and 1980s, at the very time that the majority of Americans were coming to the conclusion that the U.S. population had grown large enough, immigration soared above the American tradition, averaging more than 500,000 a year. During the 1990s it ran at around 1 million a year and hasn’t slowed much since. 

The sentiment towards immigration in these times is not due so much to the fact that Americans have changed but rather that our government’s immigration policy has changed. Until recently, policymakers and politicians of every stripe ignored what public opinion polls had found: the public's growing dissatisfaction with the abnormally high levels of immigration. Majority public opinion can be shallow, fleeting, and wrong. But an honest look at major trends during the recent mass immigration shows that ordinary Americans' concerns can hardly be dismissed as narrow and unenlightened. Whole industries in the 1970s and 1980s reorganized to exploit compliant foreign labor, with the result that conditions deteriorated for all workers in those industries.  Real wages and benefits have stagnated or declined for the majority of middle and lower- classed workers.

While immigration does have a positive effect on the economy, it is important to see where effect is felt.  By providing more competition for jobs; wages and benefits stay level or decrease.  There are greater profits for companies, higher stock prices for the wealthy, a shrinking of the middle class and growing poverty level participation.