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More than one third of Iraqis now living in the United States entered as refugees or were granted refugee status after entering. Iraqi immigrants approximately represent 14 per cent of all immigrants from Western Asia, but compromise less than one per cent of the total foreign-born population in the United States.
The Iraqi diaspora refers to native Iraqis who have left for other countries as emigrants or refugees, and is now [when?] one of the largest in modern times, being described by the UN as a "humanitarian crisis" caused by the 1991 Gulf War and 2003 invasion of Iraq and by the ensuing war.
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As of 2013, an estimated 1.02 million immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) lived in the United States, making up 2.5 percent of the country's 41.3 million immigrants. [38] Middle Eastern and North African immigrants have primarily settled in California (20%), Michigan (11%), and New York (10%).
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid to avoid deportation by a Christian Iraqi immigrant who argued he would be tortured if sent back to his home country for a drug conviction after ...
More than 13,000 immigrants convicted of homicide in the U.S. or abroad are living outside of immigration in the U.S., according to data ICE provided to Congress.
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]
The immigration advocacy group FWD.us projected that there would be 14.5 million immigrants in the U.S. illegally by January 2025, up from the 11 million in 2022.