Now it can be told. At least by the New York Times.

The immigration surge of the past few years has been the largest in U.S. history, surpassing the great immigration boom of the late 1800s and early 1900s, according to a New York Times analysis of government data.

Annual net migration — the number of people coming to the country minus the number leaving — averaged 2.4 million people from 2021 to 2023, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Total net migration during the Biden administration is likely to exceed eight million people.

That’s a faster pace of arrivals than during any other period on record, including the peak years of Ellis Island traffic, when millions of Europeans came to the United States. Even after taking into account today’s larger U.S. population, the recent surge is the most rapid since at least 1850

This is Biden’s real legacy. The Left used a senile puppet to fundamentally change national demographics and it remains debatable whether we are ever going back. I’d like to be optimistic on that score. I know many people are. Given another 4 years, things would have looked even grimmer.

But understand that the people who did this knew what they were doing, and much like the ones setting policy in the UK under Tony Blair and now Keir Starmer, did so deliberately. They traded on the reps of some dubious pols to fundamentally change and destroying nations.

The combined increases of legal and illegal immigration have caused the share of the U.S. population born in another country to reach a new high, 15.2 percent in 2023, up from 13.6 percent in 2020. The previous high was 14.8 percent, in 1890.

Forget these numbers. Look at the numbers in the under 30, under 20, and under 10 groups. There are some 700,000 minors that entered through the open border under Biden. That’s big in a country with a low native birth rate.

So America is very much on the line.