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The Role Immigrants Play In Michigan's Population Increase

The U-S Census Bureau reports Michigan’s population increased between the summer of 2017 and the summer of 2018.

   The Bureau finds immigrants are responsible for about half of that growth.

   Immigration has become a hot button political issue – the U-S Supreme Court will consider this week whether citizenship should even be a question on Census surveys.

   But new data from the Census Bureau indicates immigrants made up a substantial part of the recent 20-thousand person rise in Michigan’s population.

   In Metro Detroit…Macomb and Oakland Counties each increased by roughly three thousand people.

   But in Macomb…immigrants accounted for the vast majority of the population influx.

   Wayne County lost about two thousand people during that same time period…and has dropped by more than 60-thousand people since 2010.

   But the Census Bureau estimates that population loss is slowing.

   Kent County reportedly had the largest year-over-year population increase in Michigan…gaining about 45-hundred people.