Quote Originally Posted by iris lilies View Post
One Googled source I read said that. I’ll go back and see if I can find it.
It doesn’t even pass the back-of-the-envelope test. The population of the USA was 328 million in 2019, you’d think 44 million new immigrants in the year 2020 would have been noticed, as that would be a >13% increase in the total US population. The total US population in 2023 was 335 million, so, assuming no births at all, 37 million of those purported 2020 immigrants somehow died, were deported, or otherwise vanished. Doesn’t make any sense.

I suspect your figure was probably “total number of immigrants in the USA in 2020”, and the interesting thing would be to see what that curve looks like over the past 50 years or so.