Immigration has shifted the demographic of US neighbourhoods such as Pilsen in Chicago (referenced by Obama in her speech), which is now home to a large Mexican community.

According to figures from the US Census Bureau and the Pew Research Centre, immigrants will be the primary driving force behind America’s net population growth over the next 50 years. Among the projected 441 million Americans in 2065, 78 million will be immigrants and 81 million will be people born in the US to immigrant parents.

This growth has prompted an inflammatory rhetoric from the Trump administration, which Obama – along with many others – has implicitly called out on previous occasions.

“Whether we are born here or seek refuge here, there’s a place for us all,” she tweeted in July. “We must remember it’s not my America or your America. It’s our America.”

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Michelle Obama says white people are “still running” from non-white and immigrant families