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Immigration Impact - Florida

Immigration-driven population growth is taking its toll on Florida, the seventh fastest growing state in the U.S.. In the last ten years, over three million new residents settled in Florida-an increase that is larger than the entire population of the state in 1950. One-third of these new residents were immigrants. This large-scale population growth is bringing traffic, pollution, overcrowded schools, and lack of affordable housing to the state, decreasing quality of life and straining natural resources.

In 1995, then-Governor Lawton Chiles’s Commission for a Sustainable South Florida warned in a unanimous report that “rapid population growth and sprawling development patterns are leading South Florida down a path toward wall-to-wall suburbanization. ” Last year, Governor’s Jeb Bush’s Growth Management Commission agreed that traffic, crowded classrooms, water shortages, and pollution are serious and growing problems in the state.2 Yet Florida continues to add the third largest number of immigrants of any state

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