Without immigrants, Pew projects the total U.S. workforce population -- those ages 25 to 64 -- would fall from 173.2 million in 2015 to 165.6 million in 2035. According to Pew, this segment of the workforce is expected to fall from 128.3 million people in 2015 to 120.1 million by 2035. Related: Trump's merit-based immigration system: Who would get in? But Passel stressed that any implication that family-based immigrants don't find work and weigh on the U.S. economy is wrong. "It's not the case that family-based immigrants don't work and that skills-based immigrants do work," Passel said.

Source: CNN March 08, 2017 21:45 UTC