The year had other notable developments: The most recent estimates revealed illegal immigration was on the decline, the United States resettled the smallest number of refugees in the history of the refugee resettlement program, and nearly half of recently arrived immigrants had a bachelor’s degree or more.
And origins for recent arrivals were shifting, with more new immigrants coming from Asia than other regions. immigration, marking the last year of an administration that had a nearly unprecedented focus on reducing immigration, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic, which drastically chilled travel and migration to the United States and around the world.Įven prior to 2020, the immigrant population in the United States already had been growing at much slower rates than a decade ago. The year 2020 was a momentous one for U.S.