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Eight lakh Indians Drive US Immigrant Growth

As of July 2017, the foreign-born population (both legal and illegal) living in the US was 4.45 crore, up from just under 4 crore in 2010.

Between 2010 and 2017, 95 lakh new immigrants settled in the US. After accounting for deaths and those who returned home, 45 lakh of these new arrivals remained in the US when a count was taken in July 2017. And over 8 lakh of these 45 lakh — more than 1 in 6 — were from India, the highest number of new immigrants from any single country, government data show.

Read it at Indian Express

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