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With Trump’s New ‘Public Charge’ Rules, the War on Immigrants Just Got a Whole Lot Worse

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With Trump’s New ‘Public Charge’ Rules, the War on Immigrants Just Got a Whole Lot Worse

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The National Academy of Sciences brought together American immigrants to talk about their experiences and the prejudices they have had to deal with throughout their lives. This video was with the aim of breaking the myths that have about this topic.

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US Immigrants Bust Myths About Immigration | Truth or Myth

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The acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services faced tough questions from several members of the House Oversight and Reform hearing Wednesday on the agency’s since-reversed decision to end granting foreign nationals with serious medical conditions the temporary ability to stay in the country

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Immigration chief spars with Missouri lawmaker over ‘medical deferred-action’ policy

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A recent new about the deportation of migrants 

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Trump administration plans to fast-track processing and deportations of asylum seekers

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Undocumented immigrants   don´t pay taxes...

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Undocumented immigrants   don´t pay taxes...

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This is totally false. In fact migrants pay millions of taxa every year and even then they are often not allowed to use public services.

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Immigration in America Isn’t What the Politicians Tell You | WIRED

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Fact Check: Do illegal immigrants commit more crimes?

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who to take notice of the stereotypes and break them

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who to take notice of the stereotypes and break them

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The Trump administration's first year of immigration policy has relied on claims that immigrants bring crime into America. President Trump's latest target is sanctuary cities.

"Every day, sanctuary cities release illegal immigrants, drug dealers, traffickers, gang members back into our communities," he said last week. "They're safe havens for just some terrible people."

As of 2017, according to Gallup polls, almost half of Americans agreed that immigrants make crime worse. But is it true that immigration drives crime? Many studies have shown that it does not.

Immigrant populations in the United States have been growing fast for decades now. Crime in the same period, however, has moved in the opposite direction, with the national rate of violent crime today well below what it was in 1980.

In a large-scale collaboration by four universities, led by Robert Adelman, a sociologist at the State University of New York at Buffalo, researchers compared immigration rates with crime rates for 200 metropolitan areas over the last several decades. The selected areas included huge urban hubs like New York and smaller manufacturing centers less than a hundredth that size, like Muncie, Ind., and were dispersed geographically across the country.

According to data from the study, a large majority of the areas have many more immigrants today than they did in 1980 and fewer violent crimes. The Marshall Project extended the study's data up to 2016, showing that crime fell more often than it rose even as immigrant populations grew almost across the board.

In 136 metro areas, almost 70 percent of those studied, the immigrant population increased between 1980 and 2016 while crime stayed stable or fell. The number of areas where crime and immigration both increased was much lower - 54 areas, slightly more than a quarter of the total. The 10 places with the largest increases in immigrants all had lower levels of crime in 2016 than in 1980.

And yet the argument that immigrants bring crime into America has driven many of the policies enacted or proposed by the administration so far: restrictions to entry, travel and visas; heightened border enforcement; plans for a wall along the border with Mexico. This month, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against California in response to the state's restrictions on local police to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in detaining and deporting undocumented immigrants charged with crimes.On Tuesday, California's Orange County signed on in support of that suit. But while the immigrant population in the county has more than doubled since 1980, overall violent crime has decreased by more than 50 percent.

There's a similar pattern in two other places where Mr. Trump has recently feuded with local leaders: Oakland, Calif., and Lawrence, Mass. He described both cities as breeding grounds for drugs and crime brought by immigrants. But Oakland, like Orange County, has had increasing immigration and falling crime. In Lawrence, though murder and robbery rates grew, overall violent crime rates still fell by 10 percent.

In general, the study's data suggests either that immigration has the effect of reducing average crime, or that there is simply no relationship between the two, and that the 54 areas in the study where both grew were instances of coincidence, not cause and effect. This was a consistent pattern in each decade from 1980 to 2016, with immigrant populations and crime failing to grow together.

In a majority of areas, the number of immigrants increased at least 57 percent and as much as 183 percent, with the greatest increases occurring in the 1990s and early 2000s. Violent crime rates in most areas ranged between a 43 percent decline and a 6 percent rise, often trending downward by the 2000s. Places with a sharp rise in the immigrant population experienced increases in crime rates no more frequently than those with modest or no growth in immigration. On average, the immigrant population grew by 137 percent between 1980 and 2016, with average crime falling 12 percent over the same period.

Because the F.B.I. changed how rape was defined in its crime figures, that category could not be included in this analysis. Focusing on the other components of the violent crime rate - assaults, robberies and murders - still fails to reveal a relationship with immigration rates.

Most areas experienced decreases in all types of violent crime. The change in assault rates ranged from a 34 percent decline to a 29 percent rise, while robbery rates declined in the range of 12 percent to 57 percent, and murder rates declined in the range of 15 percent to 54 percent.

This analysis is one of the most comprehensive longitudinal studies of the local immigrant-crime relationship. It spans decades of metropolitan area data, incorporating places with widely differing social, cultural and economic backgrounds, and a broad range of types of violent crime.

Areas were chosen to reflect a range of immigrant composition, from Wheeling, W.Va., where one in 100 people was born outside the United States, to Miami, where every second person was. Some areas were home to newly formed immigrant communities; other immigrant pockets went back generations. Controlling for population characteristics, unemployment rates and other socioeconomic conditions, the researchers still found that, on average, as immigration increases in American metropolises, crime decreases.

The foreign-born data, which is collected through the census, most likely undercounts the numbers of undocumented immigrants, many of whom might wish to avoid the risk of identifying themselves. They are, however, at least partly represented in the overall foreign-born population counts.

This is not the only study showing that immigration does not increase crime. A broad survey released in January examined years of research on the immigrant-crime connection, concluding that an overwhelming majority of studies found either no relationship between the two or a beneficial one, in which immigrant communities bring economic and cultural revitalization to the neighborhoods they join.

This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for its newsletter, or follow The Marshall Project on Facebook or Twitter. Anna Flagg is an interactive reporter for The Marshall Project.

In the recent study, Mr. Adelman and his team collected crime and foreign-born population data for 200 metropolitan statistical areas for the years 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000 and 2010. The Marshall Project extended the data set to include 2016, obtaining foreign-born numbers from the American Community Survey one-year estimates and crime figures from the F.B.I. Uniform Crime Reporting Program metropolitan area data sets. When either foreign-born or crime information was unavailable for 2016, the corresponding 2015 data was substituted.

Some metropolitan areas changed over time, growing to include additional regions, or splitting into separate ones. The Marshall Project consulted with the study researchers to determine when a larger area was still an appropriate match to the original described in the study. When an area split into components, raw data from each was added to calculate rates approximating the original region. When no reasonable approximation to the original area could be found, it was marked as missing for 2016.

When an area was missing information for a certain year, that year's data was interpolated using figures from the closest year available. For example, crime numbers were unavailable for Chicago for 2000 and 2010. Data for those years was linearly interpolated using the 1990 and 2016 figures. Charlotte, N.C., was not included in either the 2016 or 2015 U.C.R. metropolitan area data sets, so data from 2010, the most recent year with available data for this area, was used as an estimate.

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The Myth of the Criminal Immigrant (Published 2018)

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The Trump administration's first year of immigration policy has relied on claims that immigrants bring crime into America. President Trump's latest target is sanctuary cities. "Every day, sanctuary cities release illegal immigrants, drug dealers, traffickers, gang members back into our communities," he said last week. "They're safe havens for just some terrible people."

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En una época de desinformación e intolerancia, las ideas erróneas sobre los inmigrantes y el odio a los inmigrantes se han difundido en la política y la sociedad estadounidenses. Como resultado, el país ha visto un preocupante aumento de la retórica, las políticas y los movimientos sociales que amenazan o perjudican directamente a los inmigrantes y refugiados. Este documento ofrece información y fuentes que aclaran las cosas y esperamos ayude a mitigar el daño causado por la desinformación sobre los inmigrantes.
Los siguientes son hechos básicos bien documentados sobre los inmigrantes y cada uno se discute más detalladamente a continuación: Hecho: Los inmigrantes no ponen en peligro la salud pública.
Las personas que denigran a los inmigrantes y los culpan de los problemas de Estados Unidos alegan que traen enfermedades a Estados Unidos desde más allá de nuestras fronteras. No existen pruebas de que los inmigrantes hayan sido el origen de ningún brote moderno de enfermedades en Estados Unidos.

Cuando estalló la pandemia del COVID-19 en 2020, las políticas que buscaban prohibir la entrada de inmigrantes y refugiados a Estados Unidos se basaban en motivos infundados de preocupación por la salud pública y el miedo a la propagación del COVID-19. A medida que la pandemia se afianzaba, expertos en salud enfatizaron que la continuación de los trámites de inmigración y asilo no propagaría aún más el coronavirus y, por el contrario, que el cierre de la frontera en realidad afectaría negativamente a la salud pública al contribuir al hacinamiento en ambos lados de ella. Además, antes de entrar a Estados Unidos, los inmigrantes deben someterse a un examen médico para detectar ciertas enfermedades transmisibles.
Hecho: los inmigrantes no pueden votar hasta convertirse en ciudadanos.
Los políticos y otros que quieren restringir la inmigración afirman que los inmigrantes indocumentados pueden votar. Los inmigrantes -incluidos los indocumentados- no pueden registrarse para votar antes de obtener la ciudadanía estadounidense, independientemente de que un estado les expida una licencia de conducir. Dieciséis estados y el Distrito de Columbia permiten a los inmigrantes indocumentados obtener tarjetas de identificación estatales en forma de licencias de conducir y todos los estados expiden documentos de identificación a los inmigrantes que tienen visas temporales y permanentes. Estas licencias constituyen una identificación válida y promueven la seguridad pública, pero no dan derecho a los inmigrantes a votar en las elecciones.

Para votar, todos los estados -a excepción de uno- exigen que la persona se registre primero y, para ello, el solicitante debe obtener y confirmar su ciudadanía estadounidense. Existen muchas y serias medidas para garantizar que solo los ciudadanos puedan votar; que cualquiera que intente subvertir esta norma sea sometido a un severo castigo y que un intento de este tipo nunca dé lugar al recuento de votos no autorizados.
Hecho: los inmigrantes crean empleo y mejoran la economía de Estados Unidos.
Algunas personas buscan explotar los malentendidos sobre el mercado laboral y el sistema fiscal de Estados Unidos fomentando la idea de que más inmigrantes significan menos puestos de trabajo y menos acceso a los programas sociales para los ciudadanos. De hecho, los inmigrantes ayudan a crear nuevos empleos. Además de comprar productos estadounidenses y locales -lo cual contribuye a crear puestos de trabajo-, los inmigrantes suelen establecer sus propios negocios. Los estados con un gran número de inmigrantes registran tasas de desempleo más bajas para todos.

En 2019, los inmigrantes pagaron conjuntamente más de $492 mil millones de dólares en impuestos, incluyendo más de $30 mil millones de dólares en impuestos pagados por los inmigrantes indocumentados. Todos pagan impuestos sobre los bienes que compran e impuestos sobre la propiedad de las casas que compran, y más de la mitad de los hogares de inmigrantes indocumentados presentan declaraciones de impuestos sobre la renta utilizando Números de Identificación Personal del Contribuyente (TIN, por sus siglas en inglés).
Hecho: la mayoría de los inmigrantes en Estados Unidos tienen un estatus legal.
Algunos individuos y activistas antiinmigrantes afirman que la mayoría de los inmigrantes en Estados Unidos no se sometieron a un proceso legal para vivir aquí. De hecho, la gran mayoría de los inmigrantes (77%) tienen un estatus legal.

En 2017, el 45% de los inmigrantes eran ciudadanos naturalizados y el 27% eran residentes permanentes legales (a veces denominados titulares de Tarjeta Verde o Green Card). El 28% restante de los inmigrantes son refugiados y solicitantes de asilo, personas que están en Estados Unidos con visas temporales (incluyendo visados de estudiante y de trabajo) e inmigrantes indocumentados.

En 2019, se calcula que había entre 10,5 y 12 millones de inmigrantes indocumentados viviendo en Estados Unidos, es decir, menos del 4% de la población del país.
Hecho: a lo largo de la historia de Estados Unidos, el porcentaje de inmigrantes se ha mantenido estable.
Quienes pretenden propagar el miedo sobre el creciente número de inmigrantes en Estados Unidos, suelen citar estadísticas engañosas y fuera de contexto. Aunque hoy hay más inmigrantes viviendo en Estados Unidos que nunca antes, también hay más personas viviendo en Estados Unidos que nunca antes. El porcentaje de inmigrantes respecto a la población total no es muy diferente al de muchas otras épocas a lo largo de nuestra historia.

De hecho, el porcentaje de inmigrantes hoy en Estados Unidos es más o menos el mismo que hace más de cien años. En la actualidad, los inmigrantes representan aproximadamente el 13,7% de la población total de Estados Unidos. Entre 1900 y 1930, los inmigrantes representaban entre el 12% y el 15% de la población, y picos similares se produjeron en las décadas de 1850 y 1880. Durante esos periodos, los inmigrantes se integraron con éxito en la sociedad estadounidense, ayudando a construir el próspero y diverso país que tenemos ahora, y este proceso siempre ha sido así, independientemente del país de origen, la raza o la religión de los inmigrantes. No hay ningún motivo para creer que los inmigrantes de hoy sean diferentes.
Hecho: los inmigrantes tienen menos probabilidades que los ciudadanos nacidos en Estados Unidos de cometer delitos o ser encarcelados.
Algunos afirman que los inmigrantes no cumplen la ley. Citan pruebas anecdóticas o casos individuales en los que los inmigrantes han hecho algo ilegal y utilizan estos casos para señalar a todos los inmigrantes como delincuentes. Un estudio tras otro ha demostrado que los inmigrantes -independientemente de su lugar de origen, su estatus migratorio y su nivel educativo- tienen menos probabilidades de cometer delitos o ser encarcelados que los ciudadanos nativos.
Hecho: los inmigrantes no suelen tener derecho a prestaciones sociales.
Algunos sugieren que los inmigrantes utilizan demasiados beneficios públicos o se aprovechan de la red de seguridad social a disposición de los ciudadanos. De hecho, la mayoría de los inmigrantes que llegan a Estados Unidos trabajan duro para cuidar de sus familias y de sí mismos. Además, muchos estudios han demostrado que, en promedio, los inmigrantes pagan más en impuestos que los beneficios que reciben.

Con muy pocas excepciones (como el caso de acceso a atención médica para las víctimas de la trata de seres humanos), los inmigrantes indocumentados, residentes temporales e incluso los residentes permanentes recién llegados no tienen derecho a las prestaciones públicas federales tales como Seguridad Social, Medicaid, Medicare y cupones de alimentos. Los titulares de la Tarjeta Verde o Green Card no suelen tener derecho a estas prestaciones hasta que llevan cinco años o más en el país en calidad de residentes permanentes. Esto significa que a muchos inmigrantes se les deducen de sus sueldos las contribuciones a estos programas, pero no pueden acceder a los beneficios. Según un estudio de 2018 del Instituto CATO, los inmigrantes que cumplen los requisitos utilizan un 27% menos prestaciones en comparación con las personas de ingresos y edades similares nacidas con la ciudadanía estadounidense.

La Ley CARES 2020, de 2 billones de dólares, que dio un alivio financiero a causa del COVID-19 a la mayoría de los contribuyentes, excluyó a millones de inmigrantes sin número de Seguro Social de recibir los cheques de estímulo -aunque muchos inmigrantes pagan impuestos y siguen trabajando en empleos esenciales, incluyendo la asistencia sanitaria.
Hecho: los terroristas rara vez han entrado ilegalmente al país por la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México.
De acuerdo con un informe publicado por la Oficina de Contraterrorismo del Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos en 2019, "la cooperación antiterrorista entre México y Estados Unidos se mantuvo fuerte en 2019. No hubo evidencia creíble que indicara que los grupos terroristas internacionales establecieran bases en México, trabajaran directamente con los cárteles de la droga mexicanos o enviaran operativos a Estados Unidos a través de México".

Una excepción reciente fue el arresto de dos individuos bajo vigilancia terrorista que intentaron cruzar la frontera a principios de 2021. Ambos individuos fueron capturados y se les impidió cruzar la frontera.

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Eight Facts about Immigrants and Immigration (In English and Español)

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En una época de desinformación e intolerancia, las ideas erróneas sobre los inmigrantes y el odio a los inmigrantes se han difundido en la política y la sociedad estadounidenses. Como resultado, el país ha visto un preocupante aumento de la retórica, las políticas y los movimientos sociales que amenazan o perjudican directamente a los inmigrantes y refugiados.

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Immigrants take good jobs from the U.S citizens...?

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Immigrants take good jobs from the U.S citizens...?

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Many people can think if the population grows, there will be less chance to get a job for them. However, immigrants often fill labor-intensive jobs that American citizens are not choosing to do. Also, they help the U.S economy to grow, between 2000 and 2004, 511 % of employment growth in Massachusetts was due to new immigrants.

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This is complete false because according to FACTANK, illegal immigrants are only taking 23% of total immigrants in the U.S

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Immigrants listen to a speech as they wait to become U.S. citizens at a naturalization ceremony in Los Angeles. (Mark Ralson/AFP/Getty Images)

The United States has more immigrants than any other country in the world. Today, more than 40 million people living in the U.S. were born in another country, accounting for about one-fifth of the world's migrants. The population of immigrants is also very diverse, with just about every country in the world represented among U.S. immigrants.

Pew Research Center regularly publishes statistical portraits of the nation's foreign-born population, which include historical trends since 1960. Based on these portraits, here are answers to some key questions about the U.S. immigrant population.

How many people in the U.S. are immigrants?

The U.S. foreign-born population reached a record 44.8 million in 2018. Since 1965, when U.S. immigration laws replaced a national quota system, the number of immigrants living in the U.S. has more than quadrupled. Immigrants today account for 13.7% of the U.S. population, nearly triple the share (4.8%) in 1970. However, today's immigrant share remains below the record 14.8% share in 1890, when 9.2 million immigrants lived in the U.S.

What is the legal status of immigrants in the U.S.?

Most immigrants (77%) are in the country legally, while almost a quarter are unauthorized, according to new Pew Research Center estimates based on census data adjusted for undercount. In 2017, 45% were naturalized U.S. citizens.

Some 27% of immigrants were permanent residents and 5% were temporary residents in 2017. Another 23% of all immigrants were unauthorized immigrants. From 1990 to 2007, the unauthorized immigrant population more than tripled in size - from 3.5 million to a record high of 12.2 million in 2007. By 2017, that number had declined by 1.7 million, or 14%. There were 10.5 million unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. in 2017, accounting for 3.2% of the nation's population.

The decline in the unauthorized immigrant population is due largely to a fall in the number from Mexico - the single largest group of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. Between 2007 and 2017, this group decreased by 2 million. Meanwhile, there was a rise in the number from Central America and Asia.

Do all lawful immigrants choose to become U.S. citizens?

Not all lawful permanent residents choose to pursue U.S. citizenship. Those who wish to do so may apply after meeting certain requirements, including having lived in the U.S. for five years. In fiscal year 2019, about 800,000 immigrants applied for naturalization. The number of naturalization applications has climbed in recent years, though the annual totals remain below the 1.4 million applications filed in 2007.

Generally, most immigrants eligible for naturalization apply to become citizens. However, Mexican lawful immigrants have the lowest naturalization rate overall. Language and personal barriers, lack of interest and financial barriers are among the top reasons for choosing not to naturalize cited by Mexican-born green card holders, according to a 2015 Pew Research Center survey.

Where do immigrants come from?

Mexico is the top origin country of the U.S. immigrant population. In 2018, roughly 11.2 million immigrants living in the U.S. were from there, accounting for 25% of all U.S. immigrants. The next largest origin groups were those from China (6%), India (6%), the Philippines (4%) and El Salvador (3%).

By region of birth, immigrants from Asia combined accounted for 28% of all immigrants, close to the share of immigrants from Mexico (25%). Other regions make up smaller shares: Europe, Canada and other North America (13%), the Caribbean (10%), Central America (8%), South America (7%), the Middle East and North Africa (4%) and sub-Saharan Africa (5%).

Who is arriving today?

More than 1 million immigrants arrive in the U.S. each year. In 2018, the top country of origin for new immigrants coming into the U.S. was China, with 149,000 people, followed by India (129,000), Mexico (120,000) and the Philippines (46,000).

By race and ethnicity, more Asian immigrants than Hispanic immigrants have arrived in the U.S. in most years since 2009. Immigration from Latin America slowed following the Great Recession, particularly for Mexico, which has seen both decreasing flows into the United States and large flows back to Mexico in recent years.

Asians are projected to become the largest immigrant group in the U.S. by 2055, surpassing Hispanics. Pew Research Center estimates indicate that in 2065, those who identify as Asian will make up some 38% of all immigrants; as Hispanic, 31%; White, 20%; and Black, 9%.

Is the immigrant population growing?

New immigrant arrivals have fallen, mainly due to a decrease in the number of unauthorized immigrants coming to the U.S. The drop in the unauthorized immigrant population can primarily be attributed to more Mexican immigrants leaving the U.S. than coming in.

Looking forward, immigrants and their descendants are projected to account for 88% of U.S. population growth through 2065, assuming current immigration trends continue. In addition to new arrivals, U.S. births to immigrant parents will be important to future growth in the country's population. In 2018, the percentage of women giving birth in the past year was higher among immigrants (7.5%) than among the U.S. born (5.7%). While U.S.-born women gave birth to more than 3 million children that year, immigrant women gave birth to about 760,000.

How many immigrants have come to the U.S. as refugees?

Since the creation of the federal Refugee Resettlement Program in 1980, about 3 million refugees have been resettled in the U.S. - more than any other country.

In fiscal 2019, a total of 30,000 refugees were resettled in the U.S. The largest origin group of refugees was the Democratic Republic of the Congo, followed by Burma (Myanmar), Ukraine, Eritrea and Afghanistan. Among all refugees admitted in fiscal year 2019, 4,900 are Muslims (16%) and 23,800 are Christians (79%). Texas, Washington, New York and California resettled more than a quarter of all refugees admitted in fiscal 2018.

Where do most U.S. immigrants live?

Nearly half (45%) of the nation's immigrants live in just three states: California (24%), Texas (11%) and Florida (10%). California had the largest immigrant population of any state in 2018, at 10.6 million. Texas, Florida and New York had more than 4 million immigrants each.

In terms of regions, about two-thirds of immigrants lived in the West (34%) and South (34%). Roughly one-fifth lived in the Northeast (21%) and 11% were in the Midwest.

In 2018, most immigrants lived in just 20 major metropolitan areas, with the largest populations in the New York, Los Angeles and Miami metro areas. These top 20 metro areas were home to 28.7 million immigrants, or 64% of the nation's total foreign-born population. Most of the nation's unauthorized immigrant population lived in these top metro areas as well.

How do immigrants compare with the U.S. population overall in education?

Immigrants in the U.S. as a whole have lower levels of education than the U.S.-born population. In 2018, immigrants were over three times as likely as the U.S. born to have not completed high school (27% vs. 8%). However, immigrants were just as likely as the U.S. born to have a bachelor's degree or more (32% and 33%, respectively).

Educational attainment varies among the nation's immigrant groups, particularly across immigrants from different regions of the world. Immigrants from Mexico and Central America are less likely to be high school graduates than the U.S. born (54% and 47%, respectively, do not have a high school diploma, vs. 8% of U.S. born). On the other hand, immigrants from every region except Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America were as likely as or more likely than U.S.-born residents to have a bachelor's or advanced degree.

Among all immigrants, those from South Asia (71%) were the most likely to have a bachelor's degree or more. Immigrants from Mexico (7%) and Central America (11%) were the least likely to have a bachelor's or higher.

How many immigrants are working in the U.S.?

In 2017, about 29 million immigrants were working or looking for work in the U.S., making up some 17% of the total civilian labor force. Lawful immigrants made up the majority of the immigrant workforce, at 21.2 million. An additional 7.6 million immigrant workers are unauthorized immigrants, less than the total of the previous year and notably less than in 2007, when they were 8.2 million. They alone account for 4.6% of the civilian labor force, a dip from their peak of 5.4% in 2007. During the same period, the overall U.S. workforce grew, as did the number of U.S.-born workers and lawful immigrant workers.

Immigrants are projected to drive future growth in the U.S. working-age population through at least 2035. As the Baby Boom generation heads into retirement, immigrants and their children are expected to offset a decline in the working-age population by adding about 18 million people of working age between 2015 and 2035.

How well do immigrants speak English?

Among immigrants ages 5 and older in 2018, half (53%) are proficient English speakers - either speaking English very well (37%) or only speaking English at home (17%).

Immigrants from Mexico have the lowest rates of English proficiency (34%), followed by those from Central America (35%), East and Southeast Asia (50%) and South America (56%). Immigrants from Canada (96%), Oceania (82%), Europe (75%) and sub-Saharan Africa (74%) have the highest rates of English proficiency.

The longer immigrants have lived in the U.S., the greater the likelihood they are English proficient. Some 47% of immigrants living in the U.S. five years or less are proficient. By contrast, more than half (57%) of immigrants who have lived in the U.S. for 20 years or more are proficient English speakers.

Among immigrants ages 5 and older, Spanish is the most commonly spoken language. Some 42% of immigrants in the U.S. speak Spanish at home. The top five languages spoken at home among immigrants outside of Spanish are English only (17%), followed by Chinese (6%), Hindi (5%), Filipino/Tagalog (4%) and French (3%).

How many immigrants have been deported recently?

Around 337,000 immigrants were deported from the U.S. in fiscal 2018, up since 2017. Overall, the Obama administration deported about 3 million immigrants between 2009 and 2016, a significantly higher number than the 2 million immigrants deported by the Bush administration between 2001 and 2008. In 2017, the Trump administration deported 295,000 immigrants, the lowest total since 2006.

Immigrants convicted of a crime made up the less than half of deportations in 2018, the most recent year for which statistics by criminal status are available. Of the 337,000 immigrants deported in 2018, some 44% had criminal convictions and 56% were not convicted of a crime. From 2001 to 2018, a majority (60%) of immigrants deported have not been convicted of a crime.

How many immigrant apprehensions take place at the U.S.-Mexico border?

The number of apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico border has doubled from fiscal 2018 to fiscal 2019, from 396,579 in fiscal 2018 to 851,508 in fiscal 2019. Today, there are more apprehensions of non-Mexicans than Mexicans at the border. In fiscal 2019, apprehensions of Central Americans at the border exceeded those of Mexicans for the fourth consecutive year. The first time Mexicans did not make up the bulk of Border Patrol apprehensions was in 2014.

How do Americans view immigrants and immigration?

While immigration has been at the forefront of a national political debate, the U.S. public holds a range of views about immigrants living in the country. Overall, a majority of Americans have positive views about immigrants. About two-thirds of Americans (66%) say immigrants strengthen the country "because of their hard work and talents," while about a quarter (24%) say immigrants burden the country by taking jobs, housing and health care.

Yet these views vary starkly by political affiliation. Among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents, 88% think immigrants strengthen the country with their hard work and talents, and just 8% say they are a burden. Among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, 41% say immigrants strengthen the country, while 44% say they burden it.

Americans were divided on future levels of immigration. A quarter said legal immigration to the U.S. should be decreased (24%), while one-third (38%) said immigration should be kept at its present level and almost another third (32%) said immigration should be increased.
Note: This is an update of a post originally published May 3, 2017, and written by Gustavo López, a former research analyst focusing on Hispanics, immigration and demographics; and Kristen Bialik, a former research assistant.
CORRECTION (Sept. 21, 2020): An update to the methodology used to tabulate figures in the chart "Among new immigrant arrivals, Asians outnumber Hispanics" has changed all figures from 2001 and 2012. This new methodology has also allowed the inclusion of the figure from 2000. Furthermore, the earlier version of the chart incorrectly showed the partial year shares of Hispanic and Asian recent arrivals in 2015; the corrected complete year shares are 31% and 36%, respectively.

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The United States has more immigrants than any other country in the world. Today, more than 40 million people living in the U.S. were born in another country, accounting for about one-fifth of the world's migrants. The population of immigrants is also very diverse, with just about every country in the world represented among U.S.

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The Trump administration has branded immigrants as criminals from the outset. During his inaugural speech the president conjured images of a country in decline at the hands of migrants flooding the borders, leaving a trail of violence in their wake.

In new data published by the Department of Justice on Thursday, the agency reports that 64 percent of all federal arrests in fiscal year 2018 were of non-U.S. citizens, a sharp increase from past years. On its face, this would appear to be another potential talking point for a White House that has largely demonized immigrants. But a further review shows that most of those additional arrests were for immigration-related charges, not violent crimes, fraud, or drug trafficking.

Federal Arrests Since 2008

The spike in arrests from fiscal year 2017 to 2018 coincides with "zero tolerance," a Justice Department policy decision aimed at ramping up criminal prosecution of people caught entering the country illegally. It is the same policy that resulted in the separation of hundreds of children from their families and has resulted in more prosecutions for illegal re-entry, which is a federal felony.

The Trump administration has repeatedly cited "criminal aliens" as a top priority. In fact, one of Trump's first moves as president was to launch the Victims Of Immigration Crime Engagement Office to "acknowledge and serve the needs of crime victims and their families who have been affected by crimes committed by individuals with a nexus to immigration."

But Thursday's report, which includes the most recent data on arrests by multiple federal agencies and the courts, shows that the majority of arrests for violent or property crimes involved U.S. citizens and not foreign nationals. While these numbers do not include arrests made by state and local law enforcement agencies, they provide a lens into the priorities of federal law enforcement agencies.

Using the most recent numbers published in the report, we took a closer look at the arrests for violent and property crimes broken down by citizenship. In every category except immigration, U.S. citizens were arrested more often than non-U.S. citizens. For instance, for every non-U.S. citizen arrested for violent crime, 10 U.S. citizens were arrested. For every non-U.S. citizen arrested for drug charges, 3 U.S. citizens were arrested.

There is a growing and consistent body of research that counters the narrative about immigrants and crime that the Trump administration has used to justify ramping up enforcement along the border, to separate children from their families, and most recently, to conduct an immigration raid that swept up about 680 unauthorized immigrants in Canton, Mississippi.

Previous reporting by The Marshall Project has shown that there is no clear connection between immigration and crime. An analysis of immigration to metro areas from 1980 to 2016, for example, showed no significant increase in violent or property crimes as the immigrant population grew. And in some cases, the presence of immigrants coincided with a decrease in crime.

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Why are the Feds Arresting More Non-Citizens?

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The Trump administration has branded immigrants as criminals from the outset. During his inaugural speech the president conjured images of a country in decline at the hands of migrants flooding the borders, leaving a trail of violence in their wake.