January 25, 2023
The Department of Homeland Security (click here) recorded a precipitous drop in encounters with migrants attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally this month, the department said on Wednesday, putting January on track to see the lowest level of monthly border encounters since the beginning of the Biden administration. The drop comes after migrant arrivals reached record levels for Joe Biden’s presidency in December. In a statement, DHS officials credited its policy announced earlier this month that introduced a new parole program for Haitians, Cubans and Nicaraguans, offering potential migrants a new legal pathway to the United States while cracking down on illegal entries.
These immigrants are near border. Such programs will assist in the stability of the region.
Participation in the program (click here) begins with a supporter or sponsor in the United States in legal status registering to support a Haitian national abroad.
March 17, 2022By Cecilia Esterline and Jeanne Batalova
...More than 44.9 million immigrants (click here) lived in the United States in 2019, the historical numeric high since census records have been kept. In 2019, immigrants comprised 13.7 percent of the total U.S. population, a figure that remains short of the record high of 14.8 percent in 1890.
The foreign-born population remained largely flat between 2018 and 2019, with an increase of 204,000 people, or growth of less than 0.5 percent. This is consistent with the 203,000 increase from 2017 to 2018 and much lower than the approximately 787,000 increase—or nearly 2 percent growth—between 2016 and 2017. The slowing growth of the immigrant population over the past few years is mirrored by the slowing growth of the overall U.S. population since 2015....
