Asian immigrants surpass Hispanics as largest wave in America (2012)

globalpost ^ | June 19, 2012

[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.

[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.

We should have done this 20 years ago but now would also be OK

[James C. Bennett]

Who is 土地公公?

Someone who likes stick figures?

BTW, the other poster's efforts to recruit you into calling me a leftist was hilarious. Perhaps both of you should examine my posting history before flinging accusations without the courage to address me directly. I'm sure Regulator has plenty of time in his/her/its hands, given the amount of itch evident in his/her/its desperation to respond, even with nonsense.

[wardaddy]

Yes...our resident Aussie...in the land of the ever abrogated aborigine loves to lecture us here in USA about our white and Christian bigotry

And make light of lords supper

Like pelham said....
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A Don meaker or stormer fellow traveler

In other words....here simply to condemn us and crow about how more tolerant and racially enlightened they are unaware of their own prejudice

[onyx]

I promise to take a look!

[Regulator]

here simply to condemn us and crow about how more tolerant and racially enlightened they are unaware of their own prejudice

LOL

Yeah, here in the Bay Area I can get that all day long! Don't need to go to the Land of Oz

Nose in the air, the aging Volvo, the worn out Earth shoes..."I'm better than you, because I'm...drum roll please...Tolerant".

Except for Evil White Anglo Saxon Protestants who are of course the Bane of the World and must be Exterminated for Peace and Light to Reign

It's comical man...I ask them, "when was the last time you were in Oakland" and their faces get that stricken look

[1010RD]

Culture matters. Asian culture is organized around Buddhism and Confucianism. Those belief systems don’t lead toward individual liberty, but a structured society, rife with enforced class levels, and centralized government control.

That’s the history of Asia. I’m not celebrating this unless we are getting their individual liberty loving, US Constitution honoring, upwardly mobile immigrants.

The Korean community is pretty conservative, pro-gun, but they vote Democrat locally. GOP outreach stinks.