Domino's CEO: U.S. Needs More Immigration to Drive Up Population

The CEO of Domino’s Pizza, Ritch Allison, says the United States needs more immigration to drive up the nation’s population.

In an interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer, Allison urged an increase in legal immigration levels to the U. S. so as to drive up population growth and provide business with an endless flow of foreign workers.

“In the U. S., with minimal population growth organically … we need immigration in our industry to continue to have enough team members,” Allison said.

At current legal immigration levels, where more than 1.2 million legal immigrants are awarded green cards annually, about one-in-six U. S. residents will have been born outside of the country by 2060, the Census Bureau has found. The foreign-born population in the U.S. is expected to reach 69 million in the next four decades.

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