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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]
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 ...
In the early years of the United States, immigration (not counting the enslaved, who were treated as merchandise rather than people) was fewer than 8,000 people a year, [37] including French refugees from the slave revolt in Haiti. Legal importation of enslaved African was prohibited after 1808, though many were smuggled in to sell.
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 Congressional Budget Office projects that the surge in immigration that began in 2022 will increase economic output in the coming years. On average, legal immigration is expected to contribute ...
The "residual method" is widely used to estimate the undocumented immigrant population of the US. With this method, the known number of legally documented immigrants to the United States is subtracted from the reported US Census number of self-proclaimed foreign-born people (based on immigration records and adjusted by projections of deaths and out-migration) to obtain the total undocumented ...
Migrants stand near the U.S.-Mexico border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. Pandemic-era immigration restrictions in the U.S. known as Title 42 are set to expire on Dec. 21.
This is a list of U.S. states, the District of Columbia and territories by median age in 2020. [note 1] The median age is the index that divides the entire population into two numerically equal age groups, one younger than that age and the other older than that age. It is the only index associated with the age distribution of a population.