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Asian immigrants surpass Hispanics as largest wave in America (2012)
globalpost ^ | June 19, 2012

Posted on 02/05/2014 8:35:47 PM PST by dennisw

Asians have taken over Hispanics as the largest wave of new immigrants to the United States, according to a report released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center.

According to CNN, the report showed that in 2010, 36 percent of new immigrants to America were Asians, compared to 31 percent who were Hispanic. A decade ago, those numbers were 19 percent Asians and 59 percent Hispanics.

The numbers have pushed the population of individuals of Asian descent to a record 18.2 million, also making Asians the fastest-growing racial group in the country, according to The New York Times.

According to the study, Asian immigration has increased, but the gap widened more because of the sharp decline in Hispanic immigration.

Of illegal immigrants in the US, 11 percent are Asian while 75 percent are Hispanic, according to government data and the report's own polling, said Reuters.

Pew also suggested that more Mexicans, the largest group of immigrants currently in America, may be leaving the US than arriving, due to the poor job market, a rise in deportation and a decline in Mexico's birthrate, said The Washington Post.

The 18 million Asians in the US make up 6 percent of the country's population and more than eight out of ten come from China, the Philippines, India, Vietnam, South Korea and Japan, said The Post. Hispanics in America number 52 million, or 17 percent of the population.

"A century ago, most Asian-Americans were low-skilled, low-wage laborers crowded into ethnic enclaves and targets of official discrimination," said the study, according to The Times. "Today they are the most likely of any major racial or ethnic group in America to live in mixed neighborhoods and to marry across racial lines."

The report comes at a time when immigration is once again at the forefront of the political landscape with President Barack Obama announcing that some children who were brought to America as illegal immigrants could be spared from deportation.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; asians; democratvoters; immigrants; immigration
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To: zeestephen
Romney won the white vote 59% to 39%. He won white women and men across all age groups. The 59% would have won past elections, not this last one. McCain only won 55% of the white vote.

Here in VA Cuccinelli won the white vote. We have entered the era of tribal politics and the white tribe is declining. Each year the cohort that turns 18 is more Democrat than the previous one. And we import thru immigration 800,000 future Democrat voters.

61 posted on 02/05/2014 10:43:11 PM PST by kabar
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To: James C. Bennett
Asians vote Democrat for precisely the same reason (and in similar proportions) as Jews do (vote Democrat, that is).

Many of the asians I know, are Republican. It tends to differ based on country of origin. Japanese, Chinese and Koreans are hard working, more affluent, and tend to want to hold on to their money and not pay high taxes. Those tend to be conservative. Filipinos, pacific islanders, Thai, Vietnamese and other asians on lower economic rungs tend to be Democrats. My wife is Chinese-American, and her family and relatives are predominantly conservative. They tend to look down on Filipinos and others as not hard working; sounds racist of them and probably is, but that's the way it is because all asians are definitely not alike.

62 posted on 02/05/2014 10:46:46 PM PST by roadcat
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To: James C. Bennett
Who is 土地公公?
63 posted on 02/05/2014 10:48:47 PM PST by ifinnegan
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To: James C. Bennett

The Australian Industry Group, (Ai Group) a pressure group that lobbies on behalf of Australian industry, has called on the country’s Coalition government to raise the number of immigrants admitted each year from 190,000 annually to 220,000 with immediate effect.

The Chief Executive of Ai Group, Innes Willox, has written to the Australian immigration minister Scott Morrison urging the government to increase skilled immigration in particular.

In his letter, dated 19th December 2013, Mr Willox says that immigration is necessary ‘to support positive growth in our population and especially in our adult workforce, due to relatively low rates of natural population growth’.


64 posted on 02/05/2014 10:48:53 PM PST by kabar
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To: Regulator

Yeah.

He should settle down and just discuss things normally.


65 posted on 02/05/2014 10:59:58 PM PST by ifinnegan
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To: onyx; wardaddy

donmeaker’s soul brother.


66 posted on 02/05/2014 11:02:10 PM PST by Pelham (Obamacare, the vanguard of Obammunism)
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To: James C. Bennett

I believe that current usage is to reserve Oriental for things and not people. At least in public and on official forms. So oriental rugs and tea but East Asian immigrants. Maybe the crowd I moved with was very PC?


67 posted on 02/05/2014 11:14:49 PM PST by FluffyTexan
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To: FluffyTexan

You are right, but it is pure lib PC.

Oriental is a good descriptive term.

Asian is too broad to be meaningful.


68 posted on 02/05/2014 11:19:03 PM PST by ifinnegan
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To: ansel12
What is a white ethnic?
A white who is not a WASP or other assimilated European-America Protestant.
69 posted on 02/06/2014 12:36:24 AM PST by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Stop talking rationally, or someone will call you racist.


70 posted on 02/06/2014 12:36:58 AM PST by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Asians are the new Jews. Which is to say, leftist for the most part.


71 posted on 02/06/2014 12:37:55 AM PST by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: dennisw
DennisW,
Thanks for posting this. Please use keywords in the future.
72 posted on 02/06/2014 12:40:44 AM PST by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: dennisw

And compared to illegal???

That’s what I thought.


73 posted on 02/06/2014 12:53:15 AM PST by Organic Panic
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To: Oliviaforever

Not true. Most Asians vote Democrat, and at least Hispanics are westerners.


74 posted on 02/06/2014 1:22:47 AM PST by Clemenza (Lurking)
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To: dennisw

” eight out of ten come from China, the Philippines, India, Vietnam, South Korea and Japan “

I’m sure the Japanese # is miniscule .


75 posted on 02/06/2014 2:06:23 AM PST by sushiman
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To: dennisw

Yep ... and most of the Asian immigrants are LEGAL. There’s the big difference.


76 posted on 02/06/2014 3:38:44 AM PST by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: Organic Panic

As far as I can tell this article is about legal immigrants. We have plenty of illegal Asian immigrants of all stripes but Mexican-Hispanic illegals outnumber them. My guess 4 to 1 or greater


77 posted on 02/06/2014 4:13:49 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: dennisw

I don’t care where they are from or how they vote we need a moratorium on ALL immigration for at least twenty years.


78 posted on 02/06/2014 5:14:48 AM PST by Count of Monte Fisto (The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
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To: kabar

Thank you for the link to reality.


79 posted on 02/06/2014 6:11:30 AM PST by khelus
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To: dennisw

The word “Asian” is meaningless. Hundreds of ethnic groups from the Arctic to the central Pacific, perhaps a third to half of all people are Asiatic.


80 posted on 02/06/2014 7:50:55 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (WoT News: Rantburg.com)
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