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A new Census Bureau report shows that migrants accounted for more than two-thirds of U.S. population growth in 2023.
According to the data, the number of foreign-born people in the U.S. rose from 13.9% in 2022 to 14.3% in 2023, marking the largest share recorded in more than a century. The number hasn’t been this high since the immigration boom in the early 1900s when in 1910 the rate of foreign-born Americans was 14.7%.
So far this decade, migrants have accounted for almost three-quarters of the population growth in the United States, with most of the immigrants coming from Latin American countries. It’s important to note that the data does not distinguish between legal and illegal immigrants.