04/11/2019 Tungol Law America Now, Immigration, organizations, Research "Snapshot of U.S. Immigration 2019"

This National Conference of State Legislatures brief provides demographic information for the foreign-born population in the U.S., including permanent and temporary legal admissions, refugees and people seeking or granted asylum, and unauthorized immigrants. It relies on the most recent data available.  The brief also includes additional resources for demographic data of the foreign-born at the national and state level.

As of 2015, South or East Asia was the single largest source region (26.9 percent) followed by Mexico (26.8 percent). Other regions accounting for significant shares were Europe and Canada (13.5 percent), the Caribbean (9.6 percent), Central America (7.9 percent), South America (6.7 percent), the Middle East (4 percent) and sub-Saharan Africa (3.9 percent).

For more details on the Snapshot of US Immigration, go to http://www.ncsl.org/research/immigration/snapshot-of-u-s-immigration-2017.aspx.

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