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Old news. That was all over the headlines on monday and tuesday.
It means absolutely nothing...
First: the count is only an estimate
Second: the number is just an arbitrary line to cross.

Anyway; it happened at 7:46 am yesterday and I don't notice any difference.

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Jay Leno showed a clip of the 300 millionth American sneaking across the border from Mexico, so it must be real.

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Apparently, it'snot growing fast enough...

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300 Million? Havent you randy devils heard of condoms?

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If it were just births, the US would pretty much be at zero population growth. However, we are a very popular country to immigrate to.

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What is the part in this growth of natural increase and of immigration ? Is the "native" american population aka whites and blacks increasing at all ?

Some of the statistics are here in cnn's article
a child is born every seven seconds, but a death occurs every 13 seconds.
... a migrant enters the country every 31 seconds.

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You guys have got to do something about that population explosion problem of yours.

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Our population doesn't explode...It's just road rage.

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We are... I already have to "Press 1 for English" with just about every voice over phone service we have over here...

I do miss the old days when it was "English by default", even "English and doom on you if you can't understand what I'm saying".

You know, 200 years ago, there were enough German-speakers for the US to at least consider making that the official language. Besides, we've (more than once) taken over land where the native language wasn't English, then gotten snippy at the people because they didn't speak it.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Besides, we've (more than once) taken over land where the native language wasn't English, then gotten snippy at the people because they didn't speak it.

And the last time we did that was when? In the meantime, my wife (a Filipina immigrant), my stepsons, and one of my daughters-n-law (all first generation immigrants) are fully fluent in English. They didn't become citizens and expect ballots printed in Tagalog, either. What excuse do people who've been here for a long time, sometimes generations, have for not learning English? If you or I immigrated to any other country, we'd be expected to learn the native language. Why shouldn't they?

What's spoken amongst themselves for cultural, personal, or religious reasons is their business. What's spoken as the language of trade and government is a slightly different animal.

Immigration seems to be the big thing everywhere now. Even in the cold N.E of Scotland there has been a huge influx from eastern europe. Parts of my hometown are now known locally as "Little Moscow"

Personally Im fine with it but there is a fair bit of resentment from the "they're taking all our jobs brigade"

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I don't personally have an issue with immigration. If the jobs aren't being done, they're free to take them.

Uncontrolled illegal immigration, that I've got issue with, but that tends to be too close to the political line to discuss here.

The Daily Show's take on this was to show the digital population display hitting 3,000,000 and two babies competing for being that number. Then they showed an old guy (i.e., someone looking a lot like me) snuffing it outside his doorway, and the digital population display resetting back to 2,999,999.

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I have seen little evidence that people who have been here for generations have not learned English. Even most first generation immigrants learn it, but if they don't, their children do.

As others have said, this is really nothing new. When my father's relatives came over from German, they settled in Southern Ohio and they spoke German. My great-grandmother was born in the US, but didn't speak English till she was in her teens.

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Ja.

One of my grandmothers came from the Germantown district of Danbury, CT, and remained bilingual all her life. The other was born in Lithuania and taught herself English, but was still fluent in Lithuanian all her life.

It's neat being able to swear in German and Lithuanian!

Thank you, grandmothers!

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