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Immigration to the United States over time by region. In 2022 there was 46,118,600 immigrant residents in the United States or 13.8% of the US population according to the American Immigration Council. The number of undocumented or illegal immigrants stood at 9,940,700 in 2022 making up 21.6% of all immigrants or 3% of the total US population. [1]
This is a list of U.S. states and the District of Columbia by immigrant population. Immigrant population is defined as "foreign-born," which means "anyone who is not a U.S. citizen at birth." [ 1 ]
Under the law, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, [127] the number of first-generation immigrants living in the United States has increased, [128] from 9.6 million in 1970 to about 38 million in 2007. [129] Around a million people legally immigrated to the United States per year in the 1990s, up from 250,000 per year in the 1950s. [130]
The proportion of immigrants in the United States is at its highest level in over a century, but that's not the case in Ohio. Around 15% of the national population is comprised of immigrants ...
Legal immigration to the United States over time A naturalization ceremony in Salem, Massachusetts in 2007. As of 2018, approximately half of immigrants living in the United States are from Mexico and other Latin American countries. [121] Many Central Americans are fleeing because of desperate social and economic circumstances in their countries.
The law, and other policies that excluded immigration from certain regions, led to a decades-long shrink in America’s foreign born population before it was repealed in 1965 in favor of a more ...
U.S. states by net international migration (From April 1, 2020 to July 1, 2022) National rank State Total net international migration (2020–2022) [1] Net international migration rate per 1,000 inhabitants — United States: 1,406,845 4.24 1 Florida: 175,333 8.14 2 California: 171,223 4.33 3 Texas: 164,062 5.63 4 New York: 108,036 5.35 5 ...
A new study predicts within the next decade the population of legal and illegal immigrants in the U.S. will hit an all time high. Census data reveals US immigrant population to top 51 million in ...