When former President Donald Trump launched his executive orders on immigration, he did so with recommendations from two organizations whose reports tend to reject immigration, now one of their groups warns that the number of foreigners is breaking records in the United States.
The country reached 47 million people born in another country, but most have a legal status, such as work permit or ‘green card’, according to the study published this Wednesday by the conservative group Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).
Adds that one out of every seven people living in the US is a foreigner, which represents the 16.3% of the country’s population, the highest percentage in recent 112 years .
However, the proportion of immigrants currently registering remains below the record of 14 .8% that the country had in 1890.
The CIS is one of the two groups with the who are connected to former Trump officials, such as former adviser Stephen Miller, creator of anti-immigrant policies in that administration, according to a report by The New York Times in April 2020.
“ to underscore the influence that racist think tanks have had in shaping American politics during the Trump era,” then considered the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that tracks groups that promote discrimination.
Based on information from the CIS, former President Trump imposed greater restrictions on those requesting a ‘ green card’.
According to the Census of 2020, the population of the United States exceeds 330 million people.
The group, considered anti-immigrant, projects that the foreign population residing in the US The US will reach 14.9% of the country’s total in September 2023, if “the current trend continues”.
The group attributes the increase in the population of foreigners living in the United States to the arrival of undocumented immigrants, but then contradicts itself in its own report by pointing out that immigrants who live in the country with legal documents represent three quarters of all residents born abroad.
According to the report, in the first 16 m Under the administration of President Joe Biden, the total population of foreigners living in the US increased by two million, twice as fast as the population born in the country.
CIS details than the states with the largest increase in the foreign population residing in the US from January 2021 to April 2022 are California (390,000), Florida (390,000), Pennsylvania (375,000), and Michigan (247,000).
According to the Census of 2020, the population of the United States exceeds 330 million people.
With information from EFE