“The big picture is that immigration has been the major demographic factor driving growth and change in the US population over the last 50 years”.
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In the half century since, there has been a wave of arrivals to the US, which is only going to continue for the next 50 years, according to new findings by the Pew Research Center.
Currently, 47 percent of immigrants coming to the USA originate in South America. However, it also notes that immigration has slowed from some parts of the world, in particular Mexico, that have been significant sources of Latino immigration.
While demographic changes in Latin America, not just Mexico, suggest numbers of immigrants to the United States will continue to decline, what’s happening in Asia indicates the opposite will hold true, Lopez says.
Released on Monday, the analysis of the American think tank presents some interesting predictions, such as the fact that over the next half century, the USA will become such a varied mix of ethnicities and races that not one of them will claim majority. When their children and grandchildren are included, these immigrants added 72 million people to the nation’s population, accounting for 55% of population growth from 1965 to 2015. Since the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, the foreign-born population in the US has surged to 45 million. Now 14 percent of the U.S.is foreign-born. Of immigrants who arrived between 1965 and 1970, 35% were Hispanic.
Asian immigrants are projected to account for 88 percent of the population increase, that’s 103 million people as the U.S. grows to 441 million.
Today’s immigration debates focus mainly on the Hispanic population, which has quickly become America’s largest immigrant population.
About half of those surveyed said immigrants were worsening the US economy and leading to crimes.
Asians now make up 26 per cent of the immigrant population but in 50 years that percentage is expected to increase to 38 per cent. Trump and others say the country needs to limit legal immigration, and all the GOP candidates push for increased border security, reports USA Today.
The plan is expected to share many aspects in common with those put forward by other Republican presidential hopefuls, including former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who have called for dramatically simplifying the tax code.
The American public appears to have mixed views on the ways immigrants have impacted the American way of life. This means that 51 percent of population boom was linked to immigrants.
Half of arrivals in 2013 lived in California, Florida, New York or Texas.
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Fifty years ago, 9.6 million of those living in the United States were born outside the country.
