10 Countries That Are the Main Sources of Immigrants

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10 Countries That Are the Main Sources of Immigrants in America
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The face of the American workforce is constantly changing.
During
America truly is a country composed almost entirely of
immigrants — whether from Europe, Asia, Africa, or Latin America.
These days, we most commonly think of immigrants as flooding into
the country from our southern border, typically from Mexico and
Central America.
But there are other countries seeing fairly massive movements of people to the United States as well, most notably from the Asian continent.
According to the Center for Immigration
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With that said, to fully understand the American workforce and the future of the U.S. economy, it’s important to know who will make up that workforce. Luckily, the Migration Policy Institute has some hard data to look at.
Of the 41 million first-generation immigrants living in the
U.S., the biggest subset, 28%, have made their way to America from
Mexico. That’s by far where most immigrants are coming from,
although as explained before, India and China are quickly gaining
ground. As of 2013, research shows
What that means is that not only will America be seeing some
demographic changes on a large scale in the near future, but also
that different economic sectors will probably go through some
transitions as well. While immigrants coming from Mexico and
Central America are often written off as unskilled and thus
relegated to jobs involving manual labor, immigrants from India and
China are coming with
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That gives them a leg up in many respects, but also poses a threat to natives in terms of employment. While immigrants from south of the border typically find jobs in areas where Americans are unwilling to look, immigrants from Asia are looking for jobs in tech companies and other more competitive fields.
This is a good thing in many ways, and has actually been
a stated goal of the Obama
administration
Again, with that in mind, it’s important to know where America’s
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- Guatemala: 2%
- Dominican Republic: 2%
- South Korea: 3%
- Cuba: 3%
- El Salvador: 3%
- Vietnam: 3%
- The Philippines: 4%
- China: 5%
- India: 5%
- Mexico: 28%