""Gibson reported,"The U.S. Census Bureau provided the following frightening statistics: The total U.S. population more than doubled from 131.7 million in 1940 to 290.8 million in 2003; the Latino population increased nearly 30 times in that same period. In 1940, the Latino population within the U.S. was 1.4 million, by 2003 it had swelled to 40 million.""