Facts about Immigration

• The places that immigrants tend to go are more diverse then they were 50 years ago. 75% of the immigrants in 1960 that lived in the United states were from Europe. In 2015 only 11.1% of the population was born in Europe. 11.6 million foreign born residents in 2015 and 26.6% of the foreign born population was from Mexico. There were 2.7 million immigrants from China, 2.4 million from India, 2 million from the Philippines, 1.4 million from El Salvador, 1.3 Million from Vietnam, 1.2 million from Cuba, and 1.1 million were each from the Dominican Republic and South Korea.
• Mexican immigrants are returning home more than they are arriving in the United States. 1 million immigrants from 2009 to 2014 returned to Mexico and 870,000 arrived. The decline can be blamed on the drop of unauthorized Mexican immigrants, which was at a peak in 20047 with 6.9 million people.
• Immigrants today are choosing to stay where they are across the United States, contrary to trends 50 years ago. Two-thirds of U.S. states had population in the 1960s where less then 5% of people were foreign-born. In 2000 to 2014, the foreign-born population increased by 60% in the South, and had a overall percentage of 47% change to the U.S. population.
• More women today outnumber men in the foreign-born population. Immigrant men outnumbered immigrant women in the 1960s. In the 1970s, the number of female immigrants surged over the number of male immigrants. In 2015, 51.4% of the U.S. immigrant population were female and only 48.6 were male.
  
  
  
  Works Cited: 
  Nicholson, Michael D., and CAP Immigration Team. “The Facts on Immigration Today: 2017 Edition.” Center for American Progress, www.americanprogress.org/issues/immigration/reports/2017/04/20/430736/facts-immigration-today-2017-edition/.