Immigrants

About 20 percent are Latin American — defined by the census as Mexican, Cuban or Puerto Rican — and 19.4 percent are from Europe.

Those census figures also show that only 2 percent of Montgomery County’s foreign-born population (16,626) entered the country after 2010 and more than 77 percent of that number of most recent immigrants are from Asia.

The largest portion of Montgomery County’s foreign-born Hispanic population — 29 percent of the foreign born — entered the U.S. between 2000 and 2009, during the presidency of George W. Bush.

Even so, the majority of immigrants now living in Montgomery County who entered the country during Bush’s presidency are Asians, nearly 46 percent.

Of the immigrants now living in Montgomery County who entered the U.S. between 2000 and 2009, 68 percent, are not U.S. citizens.

By contrast, most of the 16,615 who entered the country in the last six years — 95.2 percent — are not U.S. citizens, according to the most recent census data.

The picture these figures paint of immigration indicate that:

• Asians represent the largest population of foreign-born residents of Montgomery County;

• That the largest percentage of immigrant population from Latin America, (29.1 percent) came during the presidency of George W. Bush and even then, that the number of Asians coming in the same period (46.7 percent) was still much higher;

• And that the longer immigrants now living in Montgomery County have been living in the U.S., the more likely they are to be U.S. citizens.