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Report: 13 Percent of U.S. Now Born Abroad

By The National Journal Staff

May 11, 2012 | 11:49 a.m.

The number of U.S. residents born abroad has risen to its highest level since 1920, the Los Angeles Times reported on Friday, with a full 13 percent of the country having been born outside the U.S.    

Forty million U.S. residents in 2010 were born abroad, according to a new report from the Census Bureau, up from 31 million in 2000. One in four of those residents live in California, the report shows: a full 27 percent of the Golden State’s population in 2010 was born abroad, up from 26 percent a decade earlier. 

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