{"id":4711,"date":"2013-09-24T16:24:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T20:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=4711"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:36:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:36:31","slug":"census-bureau-releases-2012-foreign-born-population-estimates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/09\/24\/census-bureau-releases-2012-foreign-born-population-estimates\/","title":{"rendered":"Census Bureau Releases 2012 Foreign-Born Population Estimates"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Crowd<\/a>The U.S. Census Bureau this week released estimates of the 2012 foreign-born population for the country – 40,824,658 persons \u2013 and for the states. The record number of foreign-born residents represents 13 percent of the nation\u2019s total population. That is up from 12.9 percent in the 2010 Census \u2013 demonstrating that nationwide the foreign-born population is rising faster than the native-born population.<\/p>\n

In this updated estimate, some states lost both native-born population and foreign-born population while others were gaining. States that saw major jumps in foreign-born residents included Pennsylvania (up 31.6% vs. 5.0% for the native-born), South Carolina (up 24.5% vs. -3.6%), Wyoming (up 23.2% vs. 1.7%), New Hampshire (21.8% vs. 5.0%), and Utah (20.5% vs. 1.8%).