Key facts about the changing U.S. unauthorized immigrant population
The unauthorized immigrant population’s size and composition has ebbed and flowed significantly over the past 30 years.
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The unauthorized immigrant population’s size and composition has ebbed and flowed significantly over the past 30 years.
Republican support for allowing undocumented immigrants to remain legally in the United States has declined.
At least 76 of the voting members of the 117th Congress are foreign born or have at least one parent born in another country.
Latinos agree that the U.S. immigration system needs an overhaul; large shares say it requires major changes or needs to be completely rebuilt.
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.
U.S. Border Patrol agents expelled or apprehended 15,862 migrants at the southwest border in April, down 47% from March.
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.
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