About 1 in 10 restaurants in the U.S. serve Mexican food
Although especially common in California and Texas, Mexican restaurants are found in a large majority of counties in the U.S.
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Although especially common in California and Texas, Mexican restaurants are found in a large majority of counties in the U.S.
The number of international migrants grew to 281 million in 2020; 3.6% of the world’s people lived outside their country of birth that year.
Immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa tend to be more religious than U.S.-born Black adults or immigrants from the Caribbean.
The median wealth of immigrant households increased by 42% from December 2019 to December 2021.
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 Black people living in the United States reached a new high of 47.9 million in 2022, up about a third (32%) since 2000.
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.
At least 81 voting members of Congress (15%) are foreign born or have at least one parent who was born in another country.
In 2020, Afro-Latino Americans made up about 2% of the U.S. adult population and 12% of the adult Latino population.
At least 76 of the voting members of the 117th Congress are foreign born or have at least one parent born in another country.
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