Immigrants will account for more than one in seven U.S. residents in just eight years, the Center for Immigration Studies reports. Using new projections from the Census Bureau released last month, the research organization that advocates immigration reduction says the foreign-born population in 2023 will hit 51 million, representing "the largest share ever recorded in American history."The projections also show that, driven "largely by legal immigration," the foreign-born population will surge to nearly one in five residents by 2060, representing 78 million, the Center reports.According to the projections, the immigrant population will grow nearly fourtimes faster than the native-born population, reaching 15.8 percent, or 57 million,of the nation's population in 2030; 17.1 percent, or 65 million, in 2040; and 18.8percent, or 78 million, in 2060."To place these numbers into historical context, as recently as 1990, immigrantswere 7.9 percent – 20 million– of the total U.S. population," the Center reports.The Census figures also show that total U.S. population will reach 417 million by2060 — 108 million more than in 2010, an increase "roughly equivalent to addingthe combined populations of California, Texas, New York, Florida, and Massachusettsto the country," the Center reports."The new projections indicate that, absent a change in immigration policy,immigrants who will arrive in the future plus their descendants will account forroughly three-fourths of future U.S. population increase," the Center reports.The projections also forecast an older immigrant population, predicting that by 2060 there will be 25.3 million immigrants 65 years and older, accounting for 26 percent of all over-65 residents.In comparison, immigrants now account for 13 percent of the population 65 and older, the Center reports.