INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Immigrants (both legal and illegal) comprised 13.9% of the total US population of 33-odd crore as of July 2022, according to statistics
recently released by the US Census Board
This ratio was 13.6% in the previous year
In other words, it can be said that one out of seven US residents is foreign born (the term used in the report).Foreign born population,
based on the findings of the American Community Survey (ACS-2022), stood at 4.61 crore in July 2022, an increase of nearly 2 % from the
Chinese immigrants showed an increase of 79,000 to stand at 28.3 lakh, showing an increase of nearly 3%
While Mexicans continued to top the list at 106.8 lakh (or 23% of the immigrant population), there was a slight drop of less than 1% from
0.09%India28.427.094.83%China28.3327.542.86%Total foreign born461.82452.702.01%All figures in lakh and rounded offCompared to the number of
immigrants from these top three countries, numbers of those from Afghanistan and Venezuela are less significant at 4.07 lakh and 6.7 lakh
significant at 229% and 22% respectively.Commenting on the alarm expressed in some sections over the rise in number of immigrants, David J
increase in immigrant share of the population over the last decade (2012-2022) was the lowest ever
Immigrants were 13.1% of the US population in 2012, which has now increased by just 0.7 percentage points
He adds that the growth in the immigrant share is down by 76% since the 1990s.On the flip side, the Center for Immigration Studies, a
think-tank that takes a hardened stance on immigration numbers, points out that the figure of foreign-born of 4.61 crore is the largest that
Ten years ago, in 2012, the foreign-born number was 4.08 crore.Given the ageing demographic, the slower population growth and the worker
Immigrants can help, and they should be allowed to do so legally.
