That means if we continue on this trajectory and no one's trying to take us off this trajectory, eventually there will be no more native-born Americans. This country is now well under the so-called replacement level. In 2020, the most recent year for which we have data, the overall fertility rate in the United States hit the lowest point ever recorded, and that was before COVID. Since Ted Kennedy's bill became law, birth rates among native born Americans, which are the clearest possible measure of optimism in the future, those have dropped off a cliff and you're seeing that chart on the screen now. What direction does it point? Well, steadily upward. You're seeing that chart on your screen right now. In the years since that legislation passed, the United States total population exploded by 140 million people. This bill changed America completely and forever and the numbers show it. It's all bitterly amusing when you look back at it, because, of course, that is precisely what this bill did. It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs."
It will not relax the standards of admission. "It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. "This bill will not flood our cities with immigrants," Kennedy said. That's an insane conspiracy theory he explained.
On the Senate floor, Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, the man who drove the bill, went out of his way to explain that the Democratic Party was absolutely not trying to replace the American population with more compliant foreign-born voters. "This is not a revolutionary bill," assured Lyndon Johnson when he signed it – he first tip that it was, in fact, a revolutionary bill.
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