Small post.

"Despite the recent slowdown, the foreign-born share of the U.S. population in 2018 remained at the previous year’s level of 13.7%—the highest since 1910."

That's one powerful factoid in an interesting analysis from the Brookings Institution of the latest demographic trends in the US.  The piece is full of other fun nuggets, like this one:

"immigrants from Latin America far outpaced those from other regions. However, beginning in 2010, Asians competed with Latin Americans for the largest gains in the U.S. Among 2018 foreign-born residents, similar numbers of post-2010 migrants reported Asian (40.1%) and Latin American (40.4%) origins."

And also interesting, is this:

"what is occurring this decade is the rapid growth of foreign-born—including those of Asian origin and the highly educated—into states without high and/or long-standing foreign-born concentrations.…Another important post-2010 shift, despite last year’s downturn, is the dispersion of foreign-born residents to states and metropolitan areas with smaller immigrant footprints. Many of these gains—which serve the role of stemming overall population losses—are occurring in states and communities which supported President Trump in the 2016 election. Will this influx alter the political dynamics of these states, perhaps reshaping local perceptions of immigration and its impact on a community? Or will Trump’s nativist approach continue to find appeal? The 2020 election, and those beyond, will tell us."