claim: "we have over a million (legal immigrants) a year, more than at any time in the history of this country. we have the largest percentage of immigrants, almost tied now with the historical high as a percentage of immigrants living in this country."
author: rick santorum
evidence_1: may 3, 2017 ... today, more than 40 million people living in the u.s. were born in another  country, ... the u.s. has more immigrants than any other country in the world. ...  the u.s. foreign-born population reached a record 43.2 million in 2015. ... in  2015, the percentage of women giving birth in the past year was higher ...
evidence_2: political and civic engagement among visible minorities, while not at the level of  that of some ... the per capita immigration rate to canada has been relatively  constant since the ... however, over the last 25 years the economic position of  newcomers to ... recent immigrants themselves are far more likely than native  born ...
evidence_3: aug 12, 2014 ... more than 40 million immigrants resided in the united states as of 2012,1 ...  about 8 percent are black, and just over a quarter (26.3 percent) are asian or of  .... immigrants have an outsized role in u.s. economic output because they are ....  no, this is precisely the time we should regularize the country's 11.7 ...
evidence_4: aug 31, 2016 ... npr's politics team annotated trump's speech on immigration, which ... an even  higher percentage of americans (72 percent) favor some path to legal ... so i said  let's go have some fun tonight; we're going to arizona. .... we will treat everyone  living or residing in our country with great dignity, so important.
evidence_5: oct 5, 2011 ... nearly 14 million new immigrants (legal and illegal) settled in the country from ...  the country is higher than at any time in american history, the immigrant share ...  overall the immigrant population grew 28 percent between 2000 and 2010. ...  the nation's economic performance over the last decade has been ...