where do most immigrants in the united states come from today?
Mexico
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 Today , 838 @,@ 000 people in the United States identified themselves as born in Britain .. 

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 The United States has a birth rate of 13 per 1 @,@ 000 , which is 5 births below the world average . Its population growth rate is positive at 0 @.@ 7 % , higher than that of many developed nations . In fiscal year 2012 , over one million immigrants ( most of whom entered through family reunification ) were granted legal residence . Mexico has been the leading source of new residents since the 1965 Immigration Act . China , India , and the Philippines have been in the top four sending countries every year since the 1990s . As of 2012 , approximately 11 @.@ 4 million residents are illegal immigrants . As of 2015 , 47 % of all immigrants are Hispanic , 26 % are Asian , 18 % are white and 8 % are black . The percentage of immigrants who are Asian is increasing while the percentage who are Hispanic is decreasing . 

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 the highest numbers of immigrants ( in total ) came from the following countries : 

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 Chinese immigration to the United States at that time was neither uniform nor widespread . J.R. Tucker , writing for The North American Review in 1884 , stated that the vast majority of the nearly 100 @,@ 000 Chinese immigrants resided within the American West : California , Nevada , Oregon , and the Washington Territory . The U.S. Minister to China , George Seward , had asserted similar numbers in Scribner 's Magazine five years earlier . 

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 Since the American Revolution , when they fought alongside Spanish General Bernardo De Galvez to the modern day conflict in Iraq , Hispanic immigrants have played an important role in the military of the United States . 
