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.
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.
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.
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’.
Yeah.
He should settle down and just discuss things normally.
donmeaker’s soul brother.
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?
You are right, but it is pure lib PC.
Oriental is a good descriptive term.
Asian is too broad to be meaningful.
Stop talking rationally, or someone will call you racist.
Asians are the new Jews. Which is to say, leftist for the most part.
And compared to illegal???
That’s what I thought.
Not true. Most Asians vote Democrat, and at least Hispanics are westerners.
” eight out of ten come from China, the Philippines, India, Vietnam, South Korea and Japan “
I’m sure the Japanese # is miniscule .
Yep ... and most of the Asian immigrants are LEGAL. There’s the big difference.
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
I don’t care where they are from or how they vote we need a moratorium on ALL immigration for at least twenty years.
Thank you for the link to reality.
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.
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