Immigration: what are the numbers?

Todd Beamon writes about a new study about immigration in the US.

The study revealed that nearly 300,000 people immigrated to the US from Muslim countries from 2011 to 2013.

One in every six adults living in the US in 2013 was born in a foreign country.

The report estimates that somewhere between one-fourth and one-third of the 41 million immigrants are here illegally.

Overall, however, the Middle East is only fourth among regions of the world from where people emigrate to the U.S.

The leader is south Asia, which was up 372,546, or 16 percent, to 2.7 million; east Asia, up 364,909, or 5 percent, to 7.8 million; and the Caribbean, up 223,011, or 6 percent, to more than 3.9 million immigrants.

China is No. 1 in east Asia, with 217,305 people coming from that country in the period, or 10 percent, for a total of 2.3 million last year. India is the leader in south Asia, with 254,355, or 14 percent, to more than 2 million.

In 2013 there were 3.1 million immigrants in the US from Central America. Read more here.