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leftist-linguaphile:

1 in 8 people in the United States is an immigrant. 

-The foreign-born share of the U.S. population rose from 7.9% in  1990, to 11.1% in 2000, to 12.9% in 2010, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The United States was home to nearly 40 million immigrants in 2010, which is more than the total population of California.

•  Just under one-third (29.3%) of the foreign-born population came from Mexico as of 2010, while more than one-quarter (25.9%) came from the countries of South and East Asia—followed by nations of the Caribbean (9.3%), Central America (7.6%), and South America (6.8%), according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
•  Approximately 37% of the foreign-born were naturalized U.S. citizens, 31% were Legal Permanent Residents, 28% were unauthorized, and 4% were legal temporary migrants in 2010, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.
• There were 4.5 million native-born, U.S.-citizen children with at least one parent who was an unauthorized immigrant in 2010, according to the  Pew Hispanic Center.  
• 22.7% of all children in the United States (16.8 million) had parents who were immigrants as of 2009, according to the  Urban Institute. Of these children, 43.6% (7.3 million) had parents who were noncitizens.

1 in 5 people in the United States is Latino or Asian. 

-The Latino share of the U.S. population grew from 9% in 1990, to 12.5% in 2000, to 16.4% (or 50.7 million people) in 2010. The Asian share of the population grew from 2.8% in 1990, to 3.6% in 2000, to 4.8% (or 14.8 million) in 2010, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. 

• More than one-third (37.1%) of Latinos and two-thirds (65.9%) of Asians were foreign-born in 2010 according the U.S. Census Bureau.
• Nearly one-quarter (22%, or 16.3 million) of all children in the United States in 2009 were Latino, according to the Urban Institute.
• More than half (57.9%) of Latino children in the United States had at least one foreign-born parent, according to the Urban Institute.

Immigrants, Latinos, and Asians are large and growing shares of the U.S. electorate 

-In 2008, 10.2% (or 15 million) of all registered voters were “New Americans”— naturalized citizens or the U.S.-born children of immigrants who were raised during the current era of immigration from Latin  America and Asia which began in 1965—according to an IPC analysis of Census Bureau data.

•  9.3 million registered voters were naturalized citizens, while 5.7 million were “post-1965” children of immigrants.
• Naturalized citizens comprised 6.4% of all voters, while “post-1965” children of immigrants were 3.9% of voters.

-There were 6.6 million Latino voters in the 2010 mid-term elections (up from 5.6 million in the 2006 mid-terms), and 2.3 million Asian voters (up from 2.1 million in 2006), according to an analysis of Census data by the Pew Hispanic Center.

•  In 2010, Latinos comprised 6.9% of all voters (up from 5.8% in 2006) and Asians were 2.4% (up from 2.2% in 2006).

More than 1 in 7 workers in the U.S. is an immigrant. 

-The nation’s 24.4 million foreign-born workers comprised 15.8% of the U.S. labor force in 2010, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

•  Foreign-born workers accounted for 40% of workers in farming, fishing, and forestry; 36% in cleaning and maintenance; 26% in construction and extraction; 23% in food preparation and serving; and 20% in computer and mathematical occupations in 2010.

Unauthorized immigrants contribute to the U.S. economy. 

• Unauthorized immigrants comprised 5.2% of the U.S. workforce (or 8 million workers) in 2010, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.
• Households headed by unauthorized immigrants paid $11.2 billion in state and local taxes in 2010, according to  estimates prepared for the IPC by the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy.
• If all unauthorized immigrants were removed from the United States, the country would lose $551.6 billion in economic activity, $245 billion in Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and approximately 2.8 million jobs, even accounting for adequate market adjustment time, according to a 2008 report by the Perryman Group.
• A 2010 report from the IPC and Center for American Progress estimates that deporting all unauthorized immigrants from the country and somehow “sealing the border” to future unauthorized immigration would reduce U.S. GDP by 1.46% annually—or $2.6 trillion in lost GDP over 10 years. Moreover, the  U.S. economy would shed large numbers of jobs.

Those are some beautiful numbers.

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