Immigrating To America

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I have made a pie chart showing the top 5 immigrating countries to the United States. Mexico is the by far number one on the list with 11,643,000 immigrants coming to the U.S. This makes sense that Mexico is the top immigrating country being our neighboring country. One Of the major reasons why Mexicans migrant to the United States is for work and to earn money then send back to their families because the United States have a higher wage China, there are tons of reasons why Chinese people migrate to the United States but the first wave of people immigrating from china to the united states started right after the California gold rush.and from then only the most wealthy chinese migrate to the U.S. and they leave because of how their education

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