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Asian Immigrants to dominate USA!
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ACCORDING to a new report by the Pew Research Center, Asians are on track to become the largest population of immigrants in the United States.
The study released on Monday, Sept. 28 also mentioned that the share of new Hispanic arrivals is smaller than it was 50 years ago, and that the percentage of the whole US immigrant population was higher in 1890 than it is today.
By 2065, Pew projects that there will be 441 million people living in the US, and 88 percent of that growth will be attributed to future immigrants and their children. Asians are expected to outnumber Hispanics, making up 38 percent of all immigrants.
The nearly 130-page document–entitled “Modern Immigration Wave Brings 59 Million to US, Driving Population Growth and Change Through 2065”–provides “nonpartisan analysis that explores trends and projects the future,” and comes 50 years after the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, CNN reported. The act took away a quota system that once favored European immigrants, and replaced it with a policy that looked toward reuniting immigrant families and providing necessary employees.
Since the act’s passage, about 51 percent of immigrants have come to the US from Latin America, and a quarter of new immigrants have come from Asia.
The US currently holds the largest immigrant population in the world–today, about 14 percent of the nation’s population are immigrants, but that number is expected to rise to at least 18 percent, Pew Research Center projected.
Of the current largest immigrant groups, Hispanics made up 4 percent of the total U.S. population in 1965. Today, they make up 18 percent, and by 2065, that figure is projected to be 24 percent. Asians, meanwhile, were less than 1 percent of the total population 50 years ago–today, their numbers went up to 6 percent in 2015, and they are expected to meet 14 percent by 2065.
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