FIGURE 9-7 Immigrants in the U.S., Number and Percent 1900-2008 Immigration has surged
since 2000; currently 12-6 percent of the U.S. population is foreign born, almost as high a population of Americans as at the beginning of the century.
Bars represent numbers of immigrants in millions; the line represents the immigrant percentage of the U.S.population.
SOURCE: Center for Immigration Studies, wuw.cis.org.