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[00:00.10]In the United States, the number of people who were born overseas
[00:06.19]rose last year to its highest share in over a century.
[00:12.98]The increase raised the number of foreign-born residents
[00:18.78]to 44.5 million in 2017, up 1.8 percent from a year earlier.
[00:29.07]Those numbers come from the U.S. Census Bureau.
[00:35.26]The administration of President Donald Trump
[00:39.73]has said it wants to restrict legal immigration.
[00:44.79]It has increased efforts to detain and expel immigrants
[00:50.20]who entered the country without the government's permission.
[00:55.30]In fact, notes Randy Capps,
[00:58.82]the government has done little to restrict legal immigration.
[01:04.28]Capps studies changes in population at the Migration Policy Institute.
[01:11.81]He told the Reuters news agency that America's strong job market
[01:19.49]likely caused part of the increase in the foreign-born population.
[01:25.81]"The economy's definitely a factor in this,
[01:30.98]not just in more people coming but in more people staying," Capps said.
[01:37.51]Foreign-born residents made up 13.7 percent of the U.S. population in 2017,
[01:47.99]up from 13.5 percent in 2016.
[01:54.02]Those numbers come from the Census Bureau.
[01:57.78]That made the percentage of immigrants in the United States
[02:03.89]last year the highest since 1910,
[02:07.81]when they made up 14.7 percent of the population.
[02:13.11]Stephen Bannon once worked as an adviser to President Trump.
[02:19.15]Bannon had claimed that 20 percent of the population
[02:23.56]had immigrated to the United States.
[02:27.12]He called it the biggest problem for Americans who could not find a job.
[02:33.05]The Census Bureau information showed that an increasing number
[02:39.42]of immigrants were from Asia or had completed higher education.
[02:45.95]This continues a trend over the past few years
[02:50.05]during which immigration from Mexico slowed.
[02:54.73]The information comes from the U.S. government's American Community Survey.
[03:01.70]Experts believe this survey is the best way to estimate the immigrant population.
[03:09.23]The study is also used to measure population changes in cities and counties around the country.
[03:18.34]It counts all people born outside the U.S.
[03:21.87]and does not identify whether they are in the country legally or illegally.
[03:28.53]Experts say the survey likely undercounts those living in the country illegally.
[03:35.90]Illegal immigrants can be more difficult to identify
[03:40.18]in population counts because of informal housing.
[03:45.22]Also, some illegal immigrants do not take part in the survey
[03:50.06]for fear of being reported to the government, experts say.
[03:55.67]Jeffrey Passel is a population researcher at Pew Research Center.
[04:03.09]He estimates that the true immigrant population is likely three percent
[04:09.18]to five percent higher than the number in the American Community Survey.
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Words in This Story
census – n. counting of people living in an area to
trend – n. a general direction of change :
survey – n. an activity in which many people are asked a question or a series of questions in order to gather information about what most people do or think about something
informal – adj. not requiring serious or official behavior
factor – n. something that helps to produce a result
bureau – n. a specialized office or agency
resident – n. someone who lives
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