U.S. birthrate drops to new low of 1.6--yet population is still growing. How, and what does it mean?

If you're a typical American you know almost nothing about a thing called the "total fertility rate."  That's the average number of children a woman has in her lifetime.

The CDC says that rate is at an all-time low of 1.6--far below the 2.1 rate needed to keep a population level.  But CBS news quickly reassures readers that dis jus' peachy, citizen.  They lard their written piece with bland reassurances from female academics dat dis don' mean nuffin'.  "The population is steadily increasing," says one.

Wait, how can that be?  They don't tell you, but the ENTIRE increase in U.S. population is due to immigration, both legal and illegal.  And not til the last paragraph do they bother to mention that the 1.6 rate is based on ALL women in the U.S., including illegal immigrants.

And since illegal immigrants typically have two or more children (sometimes lots more), what do ya think the birthrate is for white Americans, eh?

I've tried--without success--to find that number.  Surely the CDC has the data, but no search engine finds it.  My guess is they don't want you to know, because given the larger number of children in immigrant families, for the overall U.S. birthrate to be 1.6, the white rate must be down to about 1.3 or less.  The last official figure I could find was from 2010--15 years ago--at 1.7,

CBS doesn't mention the white birthrate, because they don't care.  But after reassuring readers that an overall 1.6 rate is no cause for any concern, what does CBS attribute the low rate to, eh?   Of course you already guessed: "high costs," "uncertainty about the future,"

Asked about birth-promoting measures by the Trump administration, [expert] said those don't tackle larger needs like parental leave and affordable child care.  "The things they're doing are really symbolic and not likely to budge things for real Americans," she said.

Ahh, so...Trump's fault, eh?  You knew it was coming.

Again, not til the last paragraph does CBS bother to mention that the 1.6 rate is based on ALL women in the U.S.--including illegal immigrants...which leads people who can do math to realize that the white birthrate is far lower.  Again, that's not a concern to CBS.

Source: CBS "newz"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-birth-rate-all-time-low-cdc-data/