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Pew Research Center: What the data says about immigrants in the U.S.

By immigrationprof

In “What the data says about immigrants in the U.S.,” and for the Pew Research Center  offers some basic information about immigrants to the United States.

 
A bar chart showing that Mexico, China and India are among top birthplaces for U.S. immigrants.
 
On undocumented immigration, the report observes that 

“]f]rom 1990 to 2007, the unauthorized immigrant population more than tripled in size, from 3.5 million to a record high of 12.2 million. From there, the number slowly declined to about 10.2 million in 2019.

In 2022, the number of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. showed sustained growth for the first time since 2007, to 11.o million.

As of 2022, about 4 million unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. are Mexican. This is the largest number of any origin country, representing more than one-third of all unauthorized immigrants.”

KJ

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