Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States
February 14, 2020
By Jeanne Batalova, Brittany Blizzard, and Jessica Bolter
Reflecting some of the many nationalities that make up the American experience. (Photo: Nicola/Flickr)
Immigration has become far more central in the public conversation in the United States, typically the topic of political controversy, dueling statistics, and perceptions that often are at a significant lag to changing realities on the ground.
To this latter point: It has yet to be widely recognized that the immigrant population is growing far more slowly than in recent years, and that the unauthorized population has peaked and may even have declined. The makeup of the foreign-born population is also changing: New arrivals in the United States are more likely to be from Asia and less likely to be from than other world regions, and they are on average more educated than previous generations of migrants to the United States. The Mexican immigrant population in the United States has declined by half a million people since the beginning of the decade. And in 2018, the United States ceded its status as the world’s top country for resettling refugees, surpassed by Canada.
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/frequently-requested-statistics-immigrants-and-immigration-united-states
