3/21/14

Here's an article with a bunch of immigrant statistics as of a few years ago.
http://www.cis.org/2012-profile-of-americas-foreign-born-population

I think some of the most interesting ones are:

• While immigrants tend to be concentrated in certain jobs, natives comprise the majority of workers in virtually every occupational category. For example, natives comprise 52 percent of maids, 73 percent of janitors, 66 percent of construction laborers, and 65 percent of butchers and meat processors.
• In 2010, 23 percent of immigrants and their U.S.-born children (under 18) lived in poverty, compared to 13.5 percent of natives and their children. Immigrants and their children accounted for one-fourth of all persons in poverty. 
• In 2010, 13 percent of immigrant households were overcrowded, compared to 2 percent of native households. 
• Of adult immigrants (25 to 65), 28 percent have not completed high school, compared to 7 percent of natives. 
• The large share of immigrants with relatively little education is one of the primary reasons for their lower socioeconomic status, not their legal status or an unwillingness to work. 
• The poverty rate of adult immigrants who have lived in the United States for 20 years is 50 percent higher than that of adult natives. 

"Natives" here meaning anyone born and raised in the United States and whose parents were born and raised in the United States, so not actual Native Americans. I'm sure this goes without saying, but it's still worth pointing out in a discussion about immigration.

-Dylan Siegler