Immigrants in the United States

Sometimes I get the sense that politicians and the media are telling me that the United States are going to be destroyed due to excessive immigration. So I was very surprised and interested in this graph showing that there is a smaller percentage of foreign born residents than 100 years ago. 

What has really changed is where they are coming from

Source - NPR

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• Does this surprise you? How does this change what you already thought about immigration?
• Why do you think this change occurred?
• What do you think will happen in the next 100 years? Where will the largest percentage of immigrants come from? Why?