Washington Times
By Stephen Dinan
September 25, 2014
Immigration
from southeast Asia and the Middle East has skyrocketed in the last few
years, according to a report released Thursday that found the overall
immigrant population
has hit a record 41.3 million.
Immigration
from Saudi Arabia nearly doubled from 2010 to 2013, when nearly 90,000
Saudis came to the U.S. Pakistan and Iraq also saw big increases,
according to the Center
for Immigration Studies, which looked at new numbers from the Census
Bureau’s American Community Survey.
The
number of immigrants from Mexico actually dropped by about 1 percent
during the same period, suggesting that migration from the U.S.’s
southern neighbor has reached
an equilibrium, with newcomers matched by those leaving the U.S. and
some older Mexican immigrants dying.
Still, even with the slight decline, Mexico accounts for the largest share of immigrants, at more than 25 percent.
Brazil, Ecuador, Israel and Korea, as well as Europe as a whole, had fewer citizens living in the U.S. in 2013 than in 2010.
The study doesn’t differentiate between legal and illegal immigrants, who are all counted as “foreign born” in Census data.
In
total, immigrants accounted for 41.3 million residents, comprising 13.1
percent of the U.S. population. That’s the highest rate in 93 years,
when the wave of Eastern
European immigrants was receding just after the turn of the 20th
Century.
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