The immigrant hordes are already here! Or not.

Hide your wife, hide your husband, hide your child! The immigrant hordes are already here!

Or so lots of Americans believe — making it easier for politicians and fringe “alt-right” white-supremacist groups to seize on these fears and exploit them for political gain.

The share of people in the United States who were born abroad has been rising over the past several decades, reaching 13.4 percent in 2015. (The highest share recorded was in 1890, at 14.8 percent.) Perceived levels of immigration, however, are several multiples of that number and have been so for a while. CONT.

Catherine Rampell, Washington Post