The Immigrant Population in the U.S. Is Climbing Again, Setting a Record Last Year

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The number of people born somewhere else climbed by nearly a million last year, reaching a record high of just over 46 million {snip}

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“The foreign-born population zoomed up,” said William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution {snip} “The gain in 2022 was as big as the previous four years put together.”