10 immigration facts you didn't know

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There are more immigrants in the USA than in any other country in the world. Today, more than 40 million people living in the United States were born in another country. This is the fifth largest immigrant in the world. The population of immigrants in the United States is very diverse. Interestingly, among the visitors, almost every country is represented, writes pewresearch.org.

The infographics below provides an analysis of the main trends in the US immigration process. This is the latest data for 2015 year.

How many immigrants in the USA

The US foreign population reached a record 43,2 million in the 2015 year. Since 1965, when the US immigration laws replaced the national quota system, the number of immigrants living in the United States has increased more than 4 times. Today, immigrants make up 13,4% of the US population, which is almost 3 times the share of them (4,7%) in the 1970 year. However, the proportion of today's immigrants remains below the record 14,8% in 1890, when 9,2 million immigrants lived in the USA.

Legal status of immigrants

Most immigrants (76%) are in the country legally, while a quarter are in the country illegally. In 2015, 44% became US citizens.

About 27% of immigrants were permanent residents, and 5% were temporary residents. Another 24% of all immigrants were illegal immigrants. Between 1990 and 2007, their number tripled, from 3 million to a record high of 3,5 million. The number dropped by 12,2 million during the Great Recession and has since stabilized. In 1, there were 2015 million unauthorized immigrants in the United States, accounting for 11% of the country's population.

The reduction in the number of illegal immigration is mainly due to a decrease in the cases of illegal arrival of Mexicans. Between 2007 and 2015, this group declined by more than 1 million people. Meanwhile, this reduction was partially offset by an increase in the number of visitors from Central America, Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.

What countries do foreigners come from?

Mexico is the leading country of origin for US immigrants. In 2015, 11,6 million immigrants lived here, representing 27% of all US immigrants. The next largest groups of origin were China (6%), India (6%), the Philippines (5%) and El Salvador (3%).

Who is coming today

Every year around 1 million immigrants arrive in the USA. In 2015, India (110 thousand people) became the first country of origin of new immigrants entering the US, followed by Mexico (109 000), China (90 000 people) and Canada (35 000 people).

On a racial and ethnic basis, more immigrants from Asia than immigrants from Spain arrive in the United States every year, starting in 2010. Immigration from Latin America slowed down after the Great Recession. Asians are expected to become the largest immigrant group in the United States by 2055, surpassing Latin Americans. In 2065, according to a research center Pew, Asians make up 38% of all immigrants, Hispanics 31%, whites 20%, and blacks 9%.

How many refugees among immigrants

Since the creation of the federal refugee resettlement program in 1980, approximately 3 million refugees have been resettled in the United States, more than any other country.

In the year 2016, a total of 84 995 refugees were resettled in the USA. The largest origin group of refugees was the Democratic Republic of the Congo, followed by Syria, Burma (Myanmar), Iraq and Somalia. Among all the refugees admitted in 2016, 38 901 are Muslims (46%) and 37 521 Christians (44%). California, Texas and New York took in almost a quarter of all refugees.

Where do immigrants live

Approximately half (46%) 43,2 million immigrants live in 3 states: California (25%), Texas (11%) and New York (10%). California had the largest immigrant population in 2015. In Texas and New York there were about 4,5 million immigrants.

In terms of regions, about 2/3 of immigrants lived in the West (35%) and South (33%). About one-fifth lived in the Northeast (21%) and 11% lived in the Midwest. In 2015, the majority of immigrants lived in just 20 major metropolitan areas, with the largest populations: New York, Los Angeles and Miami.

What kind of education are immigrants

Immigrants in the United States as a whole have a lower level of education than the population born in the United States. This can be seen in the infographics below.

How many immigrants are working

There were approximately 2014 million immigrants working in the United States in 27, accounting for about 17% of the total civilian population. Legal immigrants made up the majority of the immigrant workforce, 19,5 million people. Another 8 million immigrant workers are undocumented immigrants, a number that has changed slightly since 2009. They account for 5% of the total civilian workforce.

How many immigrants were deported

From 2015 to 2016, about 344 thousands of immigrants were deported from the United States. In all, the Obama administration deported about 3 million immigrants between the 2009 and 2016 years.

How Americans treat immigration

While immigration has been at the forefront of national political debates, the US public has a number of views on immigrants living in the country. In general, most Americans have positive views on immigrants. Six out of ten Americans (63%) say that immigrants strengthen the country "because of their hard work and talents", and a little over a quarter (27%) say that immigrants burden the country in housing and health care.

Recall that about 3,5 million Russian-speaking Americans live mainly in 11 major cities - from Los Angeles on the west coast to Chicago in the north and Philadelphia in the east.

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