Immigrants are 13 percent of the US population, with more than half coming from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Who are these immigrants? How do they compare to immigrants from other regions and to the US “native-born” population? Do second generation immigrants look like their foreign-born parents or like the rest of the U.S. native born population? While first generation immigrants display visible differences in wages, poverty, education, and gender gaps, by the second generation, differences have mostly disappeared, lending credence to the idea that the U.S. remains indeed a “Nation of Immigrants”.
