The U.S. legal and illegal immigrant population rose to 42.4 Million in July 2014, according to the 2014 American Community Survey (ACS).
These numbers are reported by immigrants who were not U.S. citizens at birth. The Census Bureau called them "foreign-born." So, people who are working here temporarily, foreign students, and even individuals that are green card holders would be considered foreign born.
The study doesn't include any data from residents that are born in the U.S. from immigrants, since they are considered citizens at that point.
The report found that since 2010, the population for legal and illegal-immigrants has increased by 2.4 million, and now in 2014, there over a million arriving, reported by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). The report showed that the population has more than doubled since the numbers recorded in 2012-2013, from 520,000 to 1.04 million in 2013-14.
One-in-six U.S. citizen is an immigrant or a child of an immigrant.
Immigrants flock to the U.S. each year because it releases one million green cards per year, which help them gain citizenship, however this doesn't take into account the tens-of-thousands of refugees who seek the ability to provide a better life for themselves and their family by illegally crossing our southern border, explained the Daily Caller.
In 2014 it was recorded that the U.S. had 11.7 million legal and illegal Mexican immigrants, this being the largest population out of all the other countries in North America.
The data reported by ACS, "Allows for a more detailed analysis [of the immigrant population] by country of origin and state of residence," said Steven A. Camarota and Karen Zeigler, the authors of the study.
The report also breaks down each country, Saudi Arabia (up 93 percent); Bangladesh (up 37 percent); Iraq (up 36 percent); Egypt (up 25 percent); Pakistan, India, and Ethiopia (all up 24 percent); Nigeria and Ghana (both up 21 percent); Venezuela (up 17 percent); and China (up 16 percent).
