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The last thing this nation needs is to depopulate further.

What makes you think US Population is receding? By all census counts, we're still growing, a lot.

Numbers for 2022 are something like 900K immigrants living in the U.S. became U.S. citizens. 2 Million more migrants came with about @ 150K documented boarder crossings per month for 18 months straight. The only time there was a huge drop-off was during Covid, for obvious reasons. "The Build Back Better Act included a a $1.75 trillion framework that called for a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and a recapture of visas that were not issued in previous years"

US is the third largest populated country at 335M.

Trying to understand your "depopulate further" statement.

He is likely citing birth rates are less than death rates in most of the developed world. There is a bit of a lag effect in pop count because boomers and extensions of end of life. Japan is at the forefront of this and has more elderly in diapers than children. Another aside that's Interesting is their societys professional landscape is very ageist against youth. I don't know anything about how immigration impacts things.

Right, but even with lagging birth rights, US is still growing Yoy. It's not growing at the 2%/year it was a few years ago, but it's still net positive.

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