The Basics

One-stop shop for data-rich, short-form resources that offer straight-ahead facts about immigration and immigrants in the United States and globally.

We hope you will find the resources here useful as you seek to learn more about the phenomenon of international migration and some of the 281 million people globally who live outside their country of birth.

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Temporary High-Skilled Migration

In FY 2000, 1.1 million people entered the United States on temporary visas, many of them highly skilled.

Immigrants and Welfare Use

The 1996 U.S. welfare reform cut about 935,000 noncitizens from government benefits.

Immigrant Women in the United States in 2000

In 2000, immigrant women in the United States tended to be older and more likely to be citizens than foreign-born men, but had higher poverty rates and lower labor force participation.