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What the data says about immigrants in the U.S.
Tags: Current Focus, Renewal America, United States, European Union, China, Japan, India, Mexico, Inequality / Upward Mobility, Movement for Renewal of America, Diversity, Education, 3. Income and Wages Fairness, 6. Capital Allocation for Infrastructure, Goods and Services, 7. Democracy Support Action, 8. U.S. Investment by Government+ Private, 9. The Movement for Global Literacy,
Anti Immigration sentiment is not new - it has just changed racial stereotypes from arguing against southern and eastern Europeans and barring Asians for "quality" in 1890-1970 to today's heated debates about Latin American nationalities. Pew Research ( and the adjoining MPI) show highly relevant US Immigration history.
Pew Research shows the foreign born share of the American population is at 13.8 percent. It reached 14.8% percent by 1890, brought down in the interwar period by 1970 to 5 percent. It has gone back up- the wave of immigration blocked from successive Acts keeping out Chinese (1882), Japanese (1924) and all Asians(1924) has changed to include Asian migration under policies of John F. Kennedy.
Pew Research shows in 2022 10.6 million immigrants living in the US were born in Mexico, making up 23% of all immigrants. This is 3.2% of the US population of 335 million in 2024 according to the Census Bureau. The promise of president Harris to sign the legislation negotiated with Republicans in Congress (Senator Lankford) in March to close the Border would remove this distraction from cost of living, housing, and climate challenges.
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