About 136,000 people came to the U.S. from India, in 2014.
While the Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump continues to harp on illegal immigration from Mexico, a new analysis by The Wall Street Journal shows that Indian and Chinese newcomers to the U.S. are now outpacing Mexican arrivals in most regions of the country.
The Journal’s analysis of census figures shows that in Illinois, New York, Ohio, Virginia, Florida, Georgia and other states, more immigrants from China and India arrived than from Mexico in 2014, the most recent year for which data are available.
That year, about 136,000 people came to the U.S. from India, about 128,000 from China and about 123,000 from Mexico, census figures show. As recently as 2005, Mexico sent more than 10 times as many people to the U.S. as China, and more than six times as many as India.
The figures include people who come legally and illegally, but don’t distinguish between the two. While Chinese and Indian immigrants are far more likely to be in the U.S. legally than those from Mexico, Asians represent one of the fastest-growing segments of undocumented immigrants in the country, researchers say.
People from Mexico and other Central American countries account for about 71% of the U.S. unauthorized immigrant population, while Asians account for the second-largest share at 13%, according to the Migration Policy Institute.
“This notion of a wall and of Mexican immigration being the most pressing challenge facing the United States is completely out of touch with the reality we face,” Karthick Ramakrishnan, associate dean of the University of California, Riverside School of Public Policy, was quoted as saying by the Journal. Immigration today “is much more Asian.”
The Journal’s analysis found that in 2014, there were 31 states where more immigrants arrived from China than from Mexico that year, up from seven states in 2005. Newly arrived immigrants from India in 2014 outnumbered those from Mexico in 25 states, up from four states in 2005. Even in California, a top destination for Latinos, Chinese immigrants outnumbered Mexican immigrants in 2014, and the number from India was only slightly below that of Mexico.
While educated tech workers from India and China continue to flock to the US, fewer Mexicans are coming to the U.S. as Mexico’s own job market improves and its birth rate has declined. The construction and manufacturing jobs that lured low-skilled Mexican workers until the start of the 2007-09 recession remain in short supply. As of 2014, more Mexicans had returned to Mexico than had migrated here since the recession’s end, according to the Pew Research Center.
Census figures show how far Asian immigrants are settling beyond traditional gateways like metropolitan Los Angeles and New York, filtering into places as varied as Atlanta, Cincinnati and Charlottesville, Va. In suburbs and smaller towns, immigration lawyers, language centers and real-estate agents are adapting their work to an increasingly Asian clientele.
The number of people from China and India coming to Virginia has risen sharply. In 2005, fewer than 700 immigrants came from both China and India, census figures show. In Virginia in 2014, about 4,000 people came from China and almost 3,900 people came from India, said the Journal.
“Within the last five years I’ve started seeing a lot more Indians buying expensive homes,” Vinh Nguyen, owner of Westgate Realty Group in Falls Church, Virginia, was quoted as saying by the Journal. Lately he said is also seeing more parents of Asian students snapping up homes as investments that double as housing for their children.
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Indians are considered ‘socially disadvantaged’ for Federal Small Business contracts yet they are also Number One in income on the Wikipedia list.
“Subcontinent Asian Americans (persons with origins from India,) ”
from here:
From the Code of Federal Regulations.
13 CFR § 124.103 Who is socially disadvantaged?
(a) General. Socially disadvantaged individuals are those who have been subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice or cultural bias within American society because of their identities as members of groups and without regard to their individual qualities. The social disadvantage must stem from circumstances beyond their control.
(b) Members of designated groups.
(1) There is a rebuttable presumption that the following individuals are socially disadvantaged: Black Americans; Hispanic Americans; Native Americans (Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, or enrolled members of a Federally or State recognized Indian Tribe); Asian Pacific Americans (persons with origins from Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, Japan, China (including Hong Kong), Taiwan, Laos, Cambodia (Kampuchea), Vietnam, Korea, The Philippines, U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (Republic of Palau), Republic of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Samoa, Macao, Fiji, Tonga, Kiribati, Tuvalu, or Nauru); Subcontinent Asian Americans (persons with origins from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, the Maldives Islands or Nepal); and members of other groups designated from time to time by SBA according to procedures set forth at paragraph (d) of this section. Being born in a country does not, by itself, suffice to make the birth country an individual’s country of origin for purposes of being included within a designated group.
Yet here they are listed as Number 1 in terms of income in America
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_household_income
This seems kind of inconsistent to everyone?