The legal foreign-born population now numbers 25.8m, about a tenth of the total population.
Those immigrants account for a large majority of the area's foreign-born population, now 51.4% of the county.
Those who came helped to swell Japan's foreign-born population, which has doubled in the past 20 years.
In Phoenix, more than 70% of the foreign-born population is from Latin America.
Unemployment last year was only 4%, but among the non-European foreign-born population as many as 13.2% were without formal work.
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America has the largest foreign-born population by far an astonishing 43 million people, 10 million more than the entire population of Canada.
It shows how the foreign-born population is on the rise, not just in big cities, but in smaller towns across the country.
China, by contrast, has a foreign-born population of less than one million.
The decade saw America's foreign-born population grow by 24%, or about 7.4m.
In nine states, the foreign-born population has more than tripled since 1990.
One reason these figures are remarkable is that, according to the report, the foreign-born population of the United States has averaged 10.5 percent since 1850.
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This jibes nicely with domestic migration trends and growth in the foreign-born population, both of which have been strongest in many of these same cities.
It has been one of the fastest-growing cities in America in terms of gross domestic product (67% increase from 2001 to 2006) and foreign-born population (65% increase from 2001 to 2007).
Indeed an analysis of foreign-born population by demographer Wendell Cox reveals that the fastest growth in the numbers of newcomers are actually in cities (metropolitan areas) not usually seen as immigrant hubs.
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The overall foreign-born population rose by roughly 300, 000.
The once lily-white Midwest and the once black-and-white South are becoming prime places for immigrants (eight of the ten states with the biggest growth in the foreign-born Mexican population are in the South, for instance).
During this decade, the percentage foreign-born people in the population was at an all-time high.
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More than 140 languages are spoken there, and more than a third of the population is foreign-born.
According to the Center for Immigration Studies, the state has seen its population of foreign-born residents more than double since the year 2000, and half of those newcomers are believed to be Latino.
While only 12 percent of the U.S. population is foreign-born, 70 percent of the finalists in the 2011 Intel Science Talent Search competition were the children of immigrants, according to a National Foundation for American Policy analysis.
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In all, 12% of the population is now foreign-born, up from 3% in 1998.
Roughly 13 percent of the population today is foreign-born.
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Rioting on this scale is unprecedented for the Swedish capital and has raised questions about the success of the country's attempts to integrate foreign-born residents, who now make up some 15% of the population.
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Foreign-born residents account for about 12.6% of the U.S. population.
Since 2007, the NYPD has looked for such warning signs among New York's Muslim population of 600, 000 to 750, 000 about 40% of whom are foreign-born as homegrown terrorist plots have increased.
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