At least 81 voting members of Congress (15%) are foreign born or have at least one parent who was born in another country.

Recent monthly migrant encounter totals far exceed the peak reached during the last major wave at the U.S.-Mexico border in May 2019.

Across 49 focus groups with Asian immigrants, daily challenges related to speaking English emerged as a common theme. Participants also shared frustration, stress and at times sadness in dealing with cultural and language barriers, and described support they received from others.

The number of international migrants grew to 281 million in 2020; 3.6% of the world’s people lived outside their country of birth that year.

An estimated 940,000 immigrants became U.S. citizens during the 2022 fiscal year. That annual total would be the third-highest on record.

Immigrants who qualify for TPS are living in the U.S. and come from designated nations deemed unsafe to return to.

Abortion has risen as an election issue for Latinos, with a majority saying it should be legal in all or most cases. Meanwhile, 80% say the economy is a very important issue when deciding who to vote for in the upcoming congressional midterm elections, a greater share than any other issue.

Here are some key facts about the nation’s Latino population by geography, and by characteristics like language use and origin group.

72% of Americans say taking in civilian refugees should be an important goal for immigration policy in the United States.

There are sizable ideological differences over the most pressing priorities for the U.S. immigration system within each partisan coalition.