About 40 million foreign-born people now live in the United States, accounting for about 13 percent of the total population.

Since 1994, the unemployment rate for foreign-born workers has generally increased when the unemployment rate for native-born workers has increased and decreased when the rate for native-born workers has decreased.

The Department of Homeland Security has estimated that, in 2011, about 11.5 million U.S. residents were in the country without legal authorization—about 3 million more than in 2000.

In 2012, 27 percent of the foreign-born population between the ages of 25 and 64 had not completed high school, compared with 7 percent of the native-born population.

In 2012, three states that account for more than one-fifth of the nation’s population—California, New York, and New Jersey—had a foreign-born population that, for each state, exceeded 20 percent of its total population.

By 2010, nearly 40 million foreign-born people lived in the United States, constituting about 13 percent of the U.S. population.

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