Migration/Population

  • Most growth in the country is from immigrants

    • Policies change every 4-8 years

  • Chain migration: the process of immigrants moving to a country to join friends or family that has previously migrated there

  • Drop on foreign-born US populations in the 1930s-mid 1970s

    • Dip during babyboom

  • Top four countries of US immigrant origins

    • Mexico

    • India

    • China

    • Philippines

  • Most immigrants are family members than workers/refugees

  • Unauthorized immigrants

    • Majority from Mexico/Hispanic America

  • CA, LA, NY, IL, WV, MI losing people