The immigrant population in the U.S. is growing again.
The number of people born somewhere else climbed by nearly a million last year, reaching a record high of just over 46 million, according to new estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.
The increase isn’t huge for a country the size of the U.S. But it’s significant, as growth had slowed sharply in recent years because of Trump administration policies and the pandemic.
“The foreign-born population zoomed up,” said William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. “The gain in 2022 was as big as the previous four years put together.”