China has become the second largest country of immigrants to the United States, with nearly 2.17 million first-generation immigrants in the United States

China has become the second largest country of immigrants to the United States, with nearly 2.17 million first-generation immigrants in the United States. According to reports, the number of foreign-born immigrants in the United States has reached a record high of 40 million, of which...

A research report released on the 6th by the Washington Immigration Research Center, which is mainly based on the latest census data, shows that China is the country with the second largest number of immigrants to the United States in the world. There are currently 2.167 million first-generation immigrants who have settled in the United States but were born in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao, second only to Mexico’s 11.71 million. The number of Chinese immigrants has increased by nearly 650,000 compared with 10 years ago, and by more than 1.24 million compared with 20 years ago. The subsequent major immigrant exporting countries are India, the Philippines, Vietnam, El Salvador, Cuba, and South Korea, all of which have more than 1 million immigrants in the United States.

This report said that compared with 1990 to 2000, when U.S. job opportunities increased by 20 million and immigrants only increased by 13.2 million, U.S. job opportunities decreased by 400,000 in the past 10 years, but the number of immigrants increased by 13.9 million, a record high. The number of foreign immigrants in the United States is now twice that of 1990, three times that of 1980, and four times that of 1970.

Excluding out-migration and deaths, the U.S. immigrant population has a net increase of 8.8 million in the past ten years, bringing the total number of immigrants to 40 million. Despite this, immigrants in the United States account for less than 13% of the total population, down from 15% when the proportion of immigrants was at its peak 90 years ago.

The report stated that the growth of the immigrant population is mainly driven by the large inflow of legal immigrants, and about three-quarters of immigrants come to the United States legally. Latino immigrants are the main force in the increase in immigrants, with an increase of 7.47 million in 10 years, and Asians are the second largest force, with an increase of 4.09 million in 10 years.

The study found that the destinations of immigrants to the United States are more dispersed, and the proportion of the total immigrant population in the six states with the highest concentration of immigrants dropped from 73% in 1990 to 65% in 2010. The states with the fastest growth in immigrants are mostly in the central and southern regions. The number of immigrants in states such as Alabama, South Carolina and Tennessee has increased by 80 to 90% in 10 years. Compared with 20 years ago, the immigrant population in states such as North Carolina, Georgia and Arkansas has increased by 3.3 to 4.3 times.

The largest increase in the total number of immigrants is still in the traditional immigrant-populated states such as California, Texas, Florida, New York, and New Jersey. Currently, the largest immigrant populations are in California (10.15 million), New York (4.3 million), Texas (4.14 million), Florida (3.66 million), New Jersey (1.84 million), and Illinois (1.76 million).