Census: China Sending More Immigrants To U.S. Than Any Other Country

No one country has sent more of its nationals to the United States over the last decade than China, newly released Census Bureau data reveals.

Between 2018 and 2019, China replaced Mexico as the largest sending country of foreign-born immigrants to the U.S. over the last decade. In 2006, more Mexican nationals arrived in the U.S. than Chinese, Indians, and Canadians combined.

Fast forward to 2018 and China now sends the most foreign-born immigrants to the U.S. — surpassing India, Mexico, and Canada. Since 2010, alone, China has sent more foreign-born immigrants to the U.S. than any other country.

India, too, has sent more foreign-born immigrants to the U.S. than Mexico since 2010 — a pattern of legal immigration that has shifted the wage and job burden from America’s blue-collar workers to the white-collar workforce.

Every year, about 1.2 million legal immigrants are admitted to the country, the majority of which immediately begin competing for U.S. jobs against America’s working and middle class. Specifically, legal immigration from China and India has helped shift entire regions and industries in the U.S.

Take, for instance, that Chinese immigration has surpassed Mexican immigration in the state of California as of 2015. In Silicon Valley, California, foreign-born immigrants mostly from India now outnumber native-born Americans in the region’s tech industry.

The slowing of legal immigration from Mexico, a low-wage economy, and increases in Chinese and Indian immigration have helped delivered wage hikes to America’s working-class while white-collar American professionals continue to see their wages stagnate.

While blue-collar wages rose by about 4.3 percent last year thanks to a tightened labor market, according to Goldman Sachs, white-collar wages increased at a slower pace at 3.2 percent.

Oh, leftists want to stop immigration, now? You're not just corrupt. You're an idiot.

You are equivalent to Forrest Gump in idiocy. You think you make sense, but you are a child mouthing off because others are trying to correct your ill-informed diatribes. Is life like a box of chocolates for you? You never know what you're going to get? But if you keep sputtering nonsense you think you'll get satisfaction? Grow up.

You posted an insult "American born folks aren't decent enough for you? Go back to where you came from. We're doing fine without you.". Just because I posted an innocent remark that the Indian legal immigrants here in Silicon Valley are decent people. Your illogical retort shows your intolerance and bigotry. I've worked with them, and managed some on my technical teams. Do you personally know any? I don't think so.

Go back where I came from? How illogical, since I was born in Silicon Valley. But of course you didn't know that, but you threw out a lie anyway. Now aren't you the corrupt one. How about your illogical retort that Americans aren't decent enough for me? Are you kidding, you're that stupid? My Dad was a career military man and fought in two major wars to protect our nation and people like you? You must be a liberal idiot, you talk like one.

It is LONG past time the cheap labor express for white collar jobs was seriously curtailed just as it has started to be for blue collar jobs.

I work for a major bank in a group of 12 people. I’m one of 2 Americans. and no, I’m not in IT.

That’s ridiculous.

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