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.
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:
Work: Includes visas for specialty occupations or temporary agricultural work, as well as new arrival green cards issued for employment.
School: Includes student visas and families of student visa recipients.
Family: Includes immigrant visas and new arrival green cards issued for relatives of American citizens.
Safety: Includes refugees and asylees, as well as immigrant visas and new arrival green cards issued for fears of safety or persecution.
Diversity: Entry through the Diversity Visa Program—also known as the “green card lottery”—which accepts applicants from countries with low numbers of immigrants in the previous five years.
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.
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.
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.
Muslims come to conquer.
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.
Because it’s the only place they can get their RACE CARDS to work. They make whitey jump when one is flashed.
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. :)
And most of the others come for FREEBES!
Mostly they want to live in a hopelessly racist country where white people will make them feel bad.
So they can steal what it took millions of other people centuries to build.
Should I bother reading past the first sentence?
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.
People don’t “immigrate” they emigrate. DUMB headline.
I guess they’re interchangeable. NVRMND.
For free sh## our government offers via our tax dollars
Dear “Every Other Country”,
Don’t bother coming here. In less than ten years we will be just like you.
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.
Liberal whites. The most insecure, gullible people on the planet.
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.
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.
Plunder and pillage
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