Immigration tune by Claudia Sonea

The race for the US presidency is getting tighter and tighter and the candidates have to deal all sort of problems. One very important issue on the debate list and that is mostly approached by Republicans is the illegal immigration and what must be done to solve it once and for all. Most of them are in favor of a crackdown and after the election the chances of a change in immigration policy are high. No matter who will be elected, the future head of state will definitely have to deal the problem of immigration especially in the context that US natives are tending to become a minority. According to the Pew Research Center immigrants will increase the population of the United States between 2008 and 2050, pushing whites into a minority. Their projections that were released on Monday show that by 2050 US population will reach 438 million from 296 million in 2005 with more than 80 percent of the increase in immigrants number and the babies they give birth in US and that will make up nearly one in five Americans. Whites, currently around two-thirds of the US population, will become a minority (47 percent), while the Hispanic population, currently the largest minority group, will triple in size and double in percentage to 29 percent in 2050, the report said. Another minority that will double in percentage is the Asian one; only the black population will remain the same (13 percentage). The projections however are not perfectly accurate (based mostly on trends over the past 50 years) and the new measures that the candidate elected as US President will take might change the entire course of actions. Although US is a country created by the mixing of cultures, nations and colors, the inhabitants feel like something must be done in order to prevent an outcome like the one predicted by the Pew Research. Don't go away and take care to whom you give your vote, it is very important.

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080211/lf_afp/uspopulationimmigrationethnic;_ylt=AtAxAJFYjHTo0PLwyBEqiZas0NUE

by Claudia Sonea for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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