100 Years Of Immigrants In America, Percentage of US Population Remains the Same

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From NPR:

Immigrants make up roughly the same share of the U.S. population today as they did a century ago.

But changes in the global economy, and in U.S. immigration law, have dramatically shifted where U.S. immigrants are coming from.

A century ago, U.S. immigrants were overwhelmingly European. Today, Latin America and Asia are the big drivers of U.S. immigration, and Europe accounts for just a small fraction of the whole.

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  • Richard Lyon

    A hundred years ago there was a fairly strong nativist movement that resulted in the shutting down of most European immigration. We are certainly seeing a resurgence of that being driven by similar racist/xenophobic energy.