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    2. Mexicans are downbeat about their country’s direction

    Mexicans’ satisfaction with the way things are going in their country is at its lowest since 2007. Only 13% of Mexicans are satisfied with the way things are going, compared with 85% who report being dissatisfied. This is a marked deterioration since 2015, when 27% were satisfied and 72% dissatisfied. Mexicans’ attitudes about the way […]

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    1. Demographic portrait of Muslim Americans

    Muslim Americans are a diverse and growing population, currently estimated at 3.45 million people of all ages, including 2.15 million adults (see below for an explanation of this estimate). The U.S. Muslim community is made up heavily of immigrants and the children of immigrants from around the world. On average, Muslim Americans are considerably younger […]

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    4. Political and social views

    The political profile of Muslim Americans is much the same today as it was when Pew Research Center first comprehensively surveyed this population a decade ago: Muslims constitute a strongly Democratic constituency. Three-quarters of Muslim voters say they cast a ballot for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, and two-thirds of U.S. Muslims overall […]

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    1. Recent trends in naturalization, 1995-2015

    In 2015, 67% of lawful permanent residents eligible to become U.S. citizens had done so, the highest level in two decades and a 20-percentage-point increase since 1995. The population of naturalized U.S. citizens reached 19.8 million in 2015, a historic high that reflects both an increase in the population of eligible immigrants and an increased […]

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    Bots in the Twittersphere

    An estimated two-thirds of tweeted links to popular websites are posted by automated accounts – not human beings.

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    Appendix: References

    Anderson, Monica. 2017. “African immigrant population in U.S. steadily climbs.” Washington, D.C.: Pew Research Center, February. Baker, Bryan and Nancy Rytina. 2014. “Estimates of the Lawful Permanent Resident Population in the United States: January 2013.” Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Immigration Statistics, September. Blumberg, Stephen J. and Julian V. Luke. 2015. […]

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    Methodology

    Estimates of the lawful permanent resident and foreign-born U.S. citizen population The estimates presented in this report for the U.S. lawful immigrant population, including the number of foreign-born U.S. citizens and those eligible to apply for citizenship, are based on a residual estimation methodology developed to estimate the unauthorized immigrant population in the U.S. The […]

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