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Discuss that current state of immigration in the U.S. What percentage of the U.S. population was born outside of the United States?
The USA has highest immigrants in the World. .
the 2016 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, tell us that 1.18 million legal immigrants came in USA or statuses rearranged (618k new arrivals, 565k status adjustments) in 2016.legal immigration in USA take place in two manner , in which 2/3 population of legal immigration based on family ties in USA, while remain 1/3 is based on employment based or humanitarian help based immigration and also based in green card entry .
About 13% of us population born outside USA ,which is equal to 44.8million around. (2018). According to legal migrants population, around 25% came from Mexico ,than 6% , 6% ,4%respectively from China, india, phillipens etc.