Key findings about Black immigrants in the U.S.
The number of Black immigrants living in the country reached 4.6 million in 2019, up from roughly 800,000 in 1980.
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The number of Black immigrants living in the country reached 4.6 million in 2019, up from roughly 800,000 in 1980.
The number of immigrants receiving green cards as new lawful U.S. permanent residents bounced back last year to pre-pandemic levels.
Republicans and Democrats continue to differ over the factors they see as important for being “truly American.”
Immigrants – particularly those from African nations – are a growing share of the U.S. Black population.
El Salvador experienced a 40% drop in remittances in April 2020 compared with April 2019, the largest decline among the six nations analyzed.
Most Latino immigrants say they would come to the U.S. again.
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.
Immigration was one of the five topics most covered by 25 major news outlets in the first 60 days of the Biden administration.
The educational attainment of recently arrived Latino immigrants in the U.S. has reached its highest level in at least three decades.
91% of Democrats favor granting legal status to immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children; 54% of Republicans say the same.
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