{"id":1016,"date":"2023-02-27T12:11:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T20:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2024-06-11T14:33:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T21:33:56","slug":"1-out-of-5-u-s-residents-was-born-abroad-or-their-parents-were-born-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2023\/02\/27\/1-out-of-5-u-s-residents-was-born-abroad-or-their-parents-were-born-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"1 out of 4 U.S. residents were born abroad or their parents were born abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If present trends continue, the foreign-born share of the population will reach 14.9 percent of the U.S. population in August next year, surpassing the all-time highs reached in 1910 (14.7 percent) and 1890 (14.8 percent). <em>[Update: as of mid-2024, the % is now 15.0%]<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In addition to the immigrants themselves, there are also 17.2 million U.S.-born children (under age 18) with an immigrant parent \u2014 immigrants and their children now account for one in five U.S. residents (65 million).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cis.org\/Report\/ForeignBorn-Population-Hits-Nearly-48-Million-September-2022\">Foreign-Born Population Hits Nearly 48 Million (cis.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another way to look at this, from <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/4621\/Majority-Americans-Identify-Themselves-Third-Generation-Americans.aspx\">a 20-year-old, dated survey of adults only<\/a> (children under 18 were not included the survey &#8211; so the actual percentages would be significantly higher than these values):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>7% of adults surveyed said they were an immigrant<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>18% said one or more parents were immigrants (my wife&#8217;s Dad was born in Canada, for example)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>That is 25% are either immigrants or the child of one or more immigrants.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>40% said one or more grandparents were immigrants (one of my wife&#8217;s grandparents was born in Canada)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We assume that most of those immigrants were legal immigrants, but that is not specified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>ChatGPT says that 26% of the U.S. population has at least one immigrant parent, and that 40-50% of the U.S. population has <em><strong>at least one recent immigrant ancestor (e.g. grandparents, etc)<\/strong><\/em>. Chat GPT suggests that combining both immigrant parents and immigrant grandparent groups (likely not overlapping that much), a majority of the U.S. population has close immigrant family ties.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From multiple sources, therefore, a majority of the U.S. population has close immigrant family ties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pew survey did not include those under 18, and if children were included, this would be higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>A reasonable guestimate is that most U.S. residents have close immigrant ties within their family.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This illustrates the critical importance for those born in the U.S, who lack international connections, to make plans to develop global skillsets. Immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign-Born Population Hits Nearly 48 Million (cis.org) Another way to look at this, from a 20-year-old, dated survey of adults only (children under 18 were not included the survey &#8211;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}