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Visualized: Why Do People Immigrate to the U.S.?
Visual Capitalist ^ | 11/06/2023 | Omri Wallach

Posted on 11/06/2023 9:57:23 PM PST by SeekAndFind

The U.S. is a country created and built by immigrants from all over the world. As a result, it’s home to more immigrants than any other country.

As of 2021, more than 45.3 million people living in the U.S. were foreign-born, accounting for about one-fifth of the world’s migrants. But while some come to reunite with family, others are seeking work or escaping dangerous situations.

So why do people immigrate to the U.S.? The following graphic, by Visual Capitalist's Omri Wallach and Joyce Ma, using U.S. Department of State data compiled by USAFacts, shows the different reasons cited by new arrivals to America in 2021.

Why Immigrants Came to the U.S. in 2021

New arrival data in a given year includes non-tourist visas, new arrival green cards, refugees, and asylees.

Each arrival falls under a broad class of admission:

In 2021, the United States saw 1.53 million new arrivals. Here’s how the arrivals break down by class and origin:

New arrivals for work were the largest cohort of entries to America, totaling 638,551 people or 41.8% of new arrivals. The majority came from neighboring Mexico, which accounted for 55% of incoming workers and was the largest single country of origin.

School and education saw 492,153 people 32.2% of new U.S. arrivals, with the majority coming from Asian countries. China had the most school-related entries into the U.S. out of individual countries, accounting for 19.0% of total school-related entries, followed by India at 17.4%.

Family entries to the U.S. comprised just 23.2% or under a quarter of incoming new arrivals. In these instances, the largest cohorts came from India (17.6% of family entrants) and Mexico (15.2% of family entrants).

Compared to the larger classifications above, safety (1.9% of total entrants) and diversity (0.9% of total entrants) accounted for significantly fewer U.S. arrivals. The countries with the most citizens seeking refuge or asylum were the Democratic Republic of the Congo (4,876 refugees) and Venezuela (1,596 asylees) respectively.

Growth of U.S. Immigration

Though 2021 saw less entrants than before 2020 as a prolonged result of the COVID-19 pandemic, it still tracks with increased immigration to the U.S. in the long term.

In 1965, the U.S. updated its immigration laws, removing a national origins quota system with regional caps and preferences “emphasizing family reunification and skilled immigrants.”

Since then, the number of immigrants living in the U.S. has more than quadrupled. As of 2022, immigrants accounted for 13.9% of the U.S. population, or nearly 1 in 7 people.

U.S. Immigration from Global Perspective

The U.S population contains a high level of immigrants, though immigration is an even more pronounced factor in some other countries in the world. For example, Canada’s foreign-born population accounted for 23% of the country’s total population in 2021.

Some countries actually have immigrants constitute the majority of their populations. In the Persian Gulf, the United Arab Emirates saw 88% of its population in 2020 come from foreign countries, while Qatar saw 75%.

Immigration levels have waxed and waned over time, but remains a vital part of the American story today.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; bafflethemwithbs; bloggers; bordercrisis; illegals; illegalsaintmigrants; immigration; migrantsurge; tldr
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1 posted on 11/06/2023 9:57:23 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Muslims come to conquer.


2 posted on 11/06/2023 9:59:51 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

My “glass half empty” pessimistic side expects to see the stars and stripes replace by the red and gold stars and cycle within my lifetime.


3 posted on 11/06/2023 10:00:39 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Because it’s the only place they can get their RACE CARDS to work. They make whitey jump when one is flashed.


4 posted on 11/06/2023 10:00:44 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer ('Build Back Better' is a Bidenskyyyyyyism for 'we gotta get rid of all dem white peoples'.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Is this talking about legal immigration or illegal? Heh, Maybe I should read the whole article, but it looks wordy and it’s near my bedtime. :)


5 posted on 11/06/2023 10:03:21 PM PST by Chani ( )
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To: dfwgator

And most of the others come for FREEBES!


6 posted on 11/06/2023 10:04:10 PM PST by nopardons
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To: SeekAndFind

Mostly they want to live in a hopelessly racist country where white people will make them feel bad.


7 posted on 11/06/2023 10:19:33 PM PST by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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To: SeekAndFind

So they can steal what it took millions of other people centuries to build.


8 posted on 11/06/2023 10:33:25 PM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: SeekAndFind

Should I bother reading past the first sentence?


9 posted on 11/06/2023 11:28:16 PM PST by Mr. Blond
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Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free,

and I’ll get them to landscape my yard at a great price.


10 posted on 11/07/2023 12:02:24 AM PST by Peter ODonnell (Prayers up for Jim Robinson and family ... an island of sanity in a sea of madness. )
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To: SeekAndFind

People don’t “immigrate” they emigrate. DUMB headline.


11 posted on 11/07/2023 12:22:01 AM PST by LanaTurnerOverdrive (Not your guinea pig dot com)
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To: SeekAndFind

I guess they’re interchangeable. NVRMND.


12 posted on 11/07/2023 12:27:57 AM PST by LanaTurnerOverdrive (Not your guinea pig dot com)
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To: SeekAndFind
Where's the "seeking welfare" category?
13 posted on 11/07/2023 12:44:08 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: SeekAndFind

For free sh## our government offers via our tax dollars


14 posted on 11/07/2023 1:34:20 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: SeekAndFind

Dear “Every Other Country”,

Don’t bother coming here. In less than ten years we will be just like you.


15 posted on 11/07/2023 1:35:53 AM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: lightman

Respectfully submitted, you are wrong. We will still have the stars and bars, but we will be as far removed from American ideals as the Soviet Union.


16 posted on 11/07/2023 1:38:02 AM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Liberal whites. The most insecure, gullible people on the planet.


17 posted on 11/07/2023 1:48:37 AM PST by Old Yeller
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To: SeekAndFind

Corporate and business slave wages, plus all the freebies you can pack in your Mercedes.
Many work without paying taxes or have a seperate biz that doesn’t pay taxes.


18 posted on 11/07/2023 1:55:20 AM PST by momincombatboots (BQEphesians 6... who you are really at war with. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Make no mistake. If white people from the US decide to move to Mexico, Central America, and South America, now that those places are clearing out, the Mexicans, Guatamalans and Venezualans will follow us right back down there.

I don’t see refugees, or the downtrodden, I only see parasites and freeloaders.


19 posted on 11/07/2023 3:00:19 AM PST by KobraKai
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To: SeekAndFind

Plunder and pillage


20 posted on 11/07/2023 3:57:45 AM PST by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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