11 Facts about Immigrants

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1. More than 1 million immigrants became legal permanent residents (LPRs) of the United States in 2011.^[Department of Homeland Security. "U.S. Legal Permanent Residents: 2011." DHS Office of Immigration Statistics. Accessed April 15, 2014. .]
2. Of the new US residents, 14% came from Mexico, 7.9% from China, and 6.4% from India.^[Department of Homeland Security. "U.S. Legal Permanent Residents: 2011." DHS Office of Immigration Statistics. Accessed April 14, 2014. .]
3. As of 2013, the Obama administration had removed nearly 2 million immigrants, the highest number under any president. Teach your friends about the unjust treatment of undocumented immigrants. Sign up for Pride Over Prejudice.^[Golash-Boza, Tannya. "Mapping the Shift from Border to Interior Enforcement of Immigration Laws during the Obama Presidency." Online, accessed February 2014. http://stopdeportationsnow.blogspot.com/2013/01/mapping-shift-from-border-to-interior_7232.html]
4. The immigration process allows priority to foreign nationals who have a close family relationship with a US citizen or LPR, have needed work skills, have refugee or asylee status, or are native of countries with low immigration rates to the US.^[Department of Homeland Security. "U.S. Legal Permanent Residents: 2011." DHS Office of Immigration Statistics. Accessed April 14, 2014. .]
5. Every year, more than half of new LPRs are current residents whose status is changed to permanent.^[Hayes, Joseph M., and Laura E. Hill. "Immigrant Pathways to Legal Permanent Residence." Public Policy Institute of California. Accessed April 15, 2015. .]
6. Including orphans, nearly 8% of all new LPRs in 2011 were children with immediate relatives as current citizens in the US, and 33.2% of immigrants were under the age of 25.^[Department of Homeland Security. "U.S. Legal Permanent Residents: 2011." DHS Office of Immigration Statistics. Accessed April 15, 2015. .]
7. Between 2009 and 2011, more than 70% of immigrants came from Asia and North America every year.^[Department of Homeland Security. "U.S. Legal Permanent Residents: 2011." DHS Office of Immigration Statistics. Accessed April 15, 2014. ..]
8. More than 550,000 LPRs in 2011 were women and more than 600,000 were married individuals.^[Department of Homeland Security. "U.S. Legal Permanent Residents: 2011." DHS Office of Immigration Statistics. Accessed April 14, 2014. .]
9. By 2026, it is predicted that the government will have a shortage of 20 million workers.^[American Immigration Center Inc. "U.S. Immigration Helpful Facts." US Immigration. Accessed April 15, 2014. .]
10. In the US, 5 states have become minority-majority, which means that less than half of the population of that state is non-Hispanic white and the minorities combined have become the majority.^[Kayne, Eric. "Census: White majority in U.S. gone by 2043." NBC News. Accessed April 15, 2015. .]
11. For the first time in 2012, the majority of babies under age 1 were black, Hispanic, Asian, or another non-white race.^[Passel, Jeffrey S., Gretchen Livingston, and D’vera Cohn. "Explaining Why Minority Births Now Outnumber White Births." Pew Research Centers Social Demographic Trends Project RSS. Accessed April 15, 2014. .]