100 Years Of Immigrants In America, In Two Graphs

100 Years Of Immigrants In America, In Two Graphs
August 21, 2012
by Lam Thuy Vo - NPR

But changes in the global economy, and in U.S. immigration law, have dramatically shifted where U.S. immigrants are coming from.

A century ago, U.S. immigrants were overwhelmingly European. Today, Latin America and Asia are the big drivers of U.S. immigration, and Europe accounts for just a small fraction of the whole.

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http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/08/21/159026833/100-years-of-immigrants-in-america-in-two-graphs