WASHINGTON – The Migration Policy Institute (MPI) today released updated statistics on immigrants in the United States, compiling some of the most sought-after data on historical immigration trends, the current size of the foreign-born population, employment rates, geographic concentrations and more.
The Spotlight article in the Migration Information Source, MPI’s online journal, provides data to answer the following questions and more:
The Spotlight draws on data from MPI, the Census Bureau’s 2007 American Community Survey (ACS) and decennial Census, the Department of Homeland Security, the State Department and Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Information Technology.
The most recent version of this article can be found online at: www.migrationpolicy.org/article/frequently-requested-statistics-immigrants-and-immigration-united-states.