Biden didn't take in 16 million people in 4 years total. Your population increased by 16 million people from the time Biden took office to the time Trump was inaugurated but that's because 14.7 million babies have been born, and only 10.8 million people have died.
In reality, you've only let in about 12 million people total since Joe Biden was elected. When Trump left office there were 331 million people in the USA. Since 2021, approximately 10.8 million people have died, and 14.7 million have been born. That gives you 334.9 million people.
But your population is 347 million, which means that 12.1 million people entered the country, legally or otherwise, while Biden was in office: TOTAL. The immigration policy stats indicate that on average, approximately 1.2 million people were legally admitted for residency in the USA annually from 2021 to 2024, for a total of 4.8 million legal immigrants, meaning, at most Biden "let in 7.3 million" TOTAL, or approximately 1.8 million per year.
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1.8 million illegals were getting in annually during Biden's Administration. That's an average of 150,000 per month. And it was only that high because the border was closed for so much of his term and the only way in was illegally. After the border opened, illegal crossings dropped like a stone. Fewer than 8,000 crossed in January.
Republicans have claimed that Biden let in 20 million illegals are wildly inaccurate and exaggerated. The numbers of people in the country can be accounted for through births, deaths, and legal immigration. You cannot just pull numbers out of your ass, and make ridiculous claims based on them.
We let in 1.5 million per year, over the 3 years since the pandemic ended, for a total of 4.5 million people. Our base population is 1/10th of yours 40 million, versus 347 million, that's the equivalent of YOU letting in 45 million people. We let as many people in as YOU did over the same time frame, and our economy thrived for it, just as yours did.
Yes we have a housing problem. Carney is working on that.