US' foreign-born, immigrant populations reach record highs: report

The fig and stock of the U.S. colonisation that are foreign-born oregon are immigrants reached grounds highs successful January, a study says. 

Data from the government's Current Population Survey "shows the foreign-born oregon migrant colonisation (legal and amerciable together) deed 53.3 cardinal and 15.8 percent of the full U.S. colonisation successful January 2025," according to the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) deliberation tank. 

"Unlike borderline statistics, the CPS measures the fig of immigrants successful the country, which is what really determines their interaction connected society. Without adjusting for those missed by the survey, we estimation amerciable immigrants accounted for 5.4 cardinal oregon two-thirds of the 8.3 cardinal maturation successful the foreign-born colonisation since President Biden took bureau successful January 2021," the CIS said. 

"The tremendous standard of ineligible and amerciable migration has profound implications for a big of contented areas from schools and nationalist coffers to the labour unit and lodging markets," it added. "Perhaps the astir cardinal questions these numbers rise is whether the United States tin successfully integrate and assimilate each the immigrants already here, fto unsocial proceed to invited further newcomers each year." 

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Migrants mostly from Central America hold successful enactment to transverse the borderline astatine the Gateway International Bridge into the U.S. from Matamoros, Mexico, to Brownsville, Texas, connected June 4, 2024.  (Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images)

The CIS said that astatine "15.8 percent of the full U.S. population, the foreign-born stock is higher present than astatine the anterior peaks reached successful 1890 and 1910" and that "No U.S. authorities survey oregon census has ever shown specified a ample foreign-born population." 

It cited the Census Bureau arsenic projecting 2 years agone that the foreign-born stock of the U.S. colonisation wouldn’t scope 15.8% until 2042. 

"The 53.3 cardinal foreign-born residents are the largest fig ever successful U.S. history; and the 8.3 cardinal summation successful the past 4 years is larger than the maturation successful the preceding 12 years," it continued. "In the past 4 years, Latin America accounted for 58 percent (4.9 million) of the summation successful the foreign-born, India 12 percent (958,000), the Middle East 8 percent (690,000), and China 7 percent (621,000)." 

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President Biden welcomes U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to the White House up of his inauguration connected Jan. 20, 2025. The CIS said "the 53.3 cardinal foreign-born residents are the largest fig ever successful U.S. history; and the 8.3 cardinal summation successful the past 4 years" during the Biden medication "is larger than the maturation successful the preceding 12 years." (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

A illustration released by CIS, citing authorities data, showed that the foreign-born colonisation successful the U.S. accrued by 2.9 cardinal during erstwhile President Barack Obama’s archetypal term, 3.4 cardinal during his second, 1.6 cardinal during President Donald Trump’s archetypal word and 8.3 cardinal during the Biden administration. 

"Of course, during the second portion of the Trump administration, COVID importantly curtailed immigration, truthful 1 tin spot his 4 years arsenic artificially low," the CIS said. 

 A U.S. Border Patrol cause stands connected a cliff looking for migrants that crossed the borderline partition betwixt the U.S. and Mexico adjacent the metropolis of Sasabe, Ariz., successful January 2022. (Photo by Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

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It besides noted that 60% of immigrants successful the U.S. are employed and "There were 31.7 cardinal migrant workers successful January 2025, and they relationship for astir 20 percent of each workers."