Why is this article and every other one I'm reading online speculating that the 300 millionth American will be an immigrant? Seems like a statistical improbability when you take the information from the US Pop Clock, (7 seconds for a new birth, 31 for an emigration to the US), it sums up to almost 4.5:1 that the 300 millionth kid was a baby born somewhere in the US.
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Why is this article and every other one I'm reading online speculating that the 300 millionth American will be an immigrant? Seems like a statistical improbability when you take the information from the US Pop Clock, (7 seconds for a new birth, 31 for an emigration to the US), it sums up to almost 4.5:1 that the 300 millionth kid was a baby born somewhere in the US.