India, China top Mexico in sending immigrants to the US.
By Raif Karerat
WASHINGTON, DC: India and China may have topped Mexico when it comes to total number of immigrants sent to the U.S., reported the Wall Street Journal over the weekend.
147,000 recent U.S. immigrants originated from China in 2013, while Mexico sent just 125,000, according to a Census Bureau study by researcher Eric Jensen and others. India, with 129,000 immigrants, also surpassed Mexico, albeit the two countries’ results were not statistically different from each other.
Just one year before, in 2012, China and Mexico had been effectively tied for top-sending country—with Mexico at 125,000 and China at 124,000.
Several other nations that were among the top immigration origin points include South Korea, the Philippines, and Japan.
The study, which was presented last week at the Population Association of America conference in San Diego, analyzed annual immigration data for 2000 to 2013 from the American Community Survey.
The mandatory annual survey conducted by the Census Bureau asks where respondents lived the year before, reported WSJ. Researchers counted as an “immigrant” any foreign-born person in the U.S. who said they previously lived abroad, without asking about legal status. In other words, the data includes undocumented immigrants, but may under-represent them.
In March, the U.S. Census Bureau released the results of a study that indicated over half of the nation’s children — 50.2 percent — are expected to be part of a “minority” ethnic group by the year 2020.
It also noted the native population is expected to increase by 62 million, or 22 percent between 2014 and 2060, whereas the foreign-born population is expected to increase by 36 million, or 85 percent, reaching approximately 78 million.
The nation’s foreign-born will reach nearly one in five of the total population, up from 13 percent in 2014 to 19 percent in 2060.
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Very good, God bless India, from the USA. Long live our alliance.