Hey! My mother is an immigrant from saudi arabia. Do you know anyone who is an immigrant? Immigration to the US is the movement of individuals who are not natives.  
My sister's boyfriend is an immigrant from Russia.
Cool! Immigration has been a big source of population growth and change in the culture for the US. It's a major change for the people coming to the US as well.
Yes. I cannot imagine how it must feel to move to a new country.
other country, with 47 million immigrants as of 2015. This represents 19.1% of the 244 million international migrants worldwide, and 14.4% of the U.S. population. Some other countries have larger proportions of immigrants, such as Switzerland with 24.9% and Canada with 21.9%.
According to the 2016 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, the United States admitted 1.18 million legal immigrants in 2016. Of these, 48% were the immediate relatives of U.S. citizens, 20% were family-sponsored, 13% were refugees and/or asylum seekers
Immigration to the United States
Immigration to the United States is the international movement of non-U.S. nationals in order to reside permanently in the country. Immigration has been a major source of population growth and cultural change throughout much of the U.S. history. Because the United States is a settler colonial society, all Americans, with the exception of the small percent of Native Americans, can trace their ancestry to immigrants from other nations around the world.
In absolute numbers, the United States has a larger immigrant population than any