How Temporary Protected Status has expanded under the Biden administration
Since January 2021, the Biden administration has greatly expanded the number of immigrants who are eligible for Temporary Protected Status.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Since January 2021, the Biden administration has greatly expanded the number of immigrants who are eligible for Temporary Protected Status.
The unauthorized immigrant population in the United States reached 10.5 million in 2021. That was a modest increase over 2019 but nearly identical to 2017.
The median wealth of immigrant households increased by 42% from December 2019 to December 2021.
In 2021, there were 2.6 million foreign-born Hispanics who had been in the U.S. for five years or less. This is down from 3.8 million in 2000.
U.S. Hispanics are less likely than other Americans to say increasing deportations or a larger wall along the border will help the situation.
About one-in-ten Asian Americans live in poverty. Pew Research Center conducted 18 focus groups in 12 languages to explore their stories and experiences.
Most Asian adults in the U.S. have been treated as a foreigner or experienced incidents where people assume they are a “model minority.”
In 2022, there were 63.7 million Hispanics living in the United States. The U.S. Hispanic population has diverse origins in Latin America and Spain.
32% of U.S.-born Asian adults have hidden a part of their heritage, compared with 15% of immigrants.
In 2021, nearly 2.5 million Latinos in the United States held advanced degrees such as master’s degrees or doctorates.
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