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Or for that matter, just how many foreign-born immigrants are here? What's the percentage?
Spent 30 minutes at census site and goggling all over the place, from the news to scholarly articles, and never got a handle on it.
Percentage by state would be great.
Again, cencus bereau has it, just could'nt quite beleive the numbers.
Legal 'Hispanics': according to the US census; approximately 14% of the US population of 300 million. I am guessing ca. 42 million.
NOTE: 'Hispanic' refers to any person of Latin American/Spanish heritage; they can be of any race.
Illegal Hispanics; I keep hearing between 12-20 million are here not counting their 'anchor babies'........which may equal 35-40 million total. Just that the anchors are US citizens.
Or for that matter, just how many foreign-born immigrants are here? What's the percentage?
Spent 30 minutes at census site and goggling all over the place, from the news to scholarly articles, and never got a handle on it.
Percentage by state would be great.
Again, cencus bereau has it, just could'nt quite beleive the numbers.
Thanks.
Sources would be appreciated.
i was doing so well.
20 million illegal give or take a million or 2. the rest i dont know.
we are getting our population replenishing from immigration not birthrate.
just like france. with following twist. low emphasis on education, citizenship and assimulation. if i did not know better i would say somebody is trying to create a service sector class with work ethic. massive demographic changes blacks moving back to the south cities like LA being replenished with hispanic. in a very short few years black went 14 to 11 percent and hispanic went 12 to 14%.
this is all going somewhere not sure where.
stephen s
san diego ca
Legal 'Hispanics': according to the US census; approximately 14% of the US population of 300 million. I am guessing ca. 42 million.
NOTE: 'Hispanic' refers to any person of Latin American/Spanish heritage; they can be of any race.
Illegal Hispanics; I keep hearing between 12-20 million are here not counting their 'anchor babies'........which may equal 35-40 million total. Just that the anchors are US citizens.
Thanks, and thanks all.
ArizonaBear, you come closest to answering my question. Seems none can nail an answer. It would be interesting to know just how many Mexican-born (specific, as they are by far the biggest block) live, legally or not, in the U.S.
Census gives a number. It's rather a big number by the way and I do not know if they guess-estimate for illegals.
Yes, but it is certainly far more than the piddly 12 milliuon number that people like to throw around. Always remember that they have been using the 12 million number since the year 2001 and we all know that hundreds of thousands get into this country every year illegally.
Another interesting question, and one related to this, would be---how BIG is the percentage of the foreign-born sector of the US population? I seem to remember reading that, in recent history, there was a huge peak in immigration about 100 years ago, and at that time, 1/4 of the population of New York City was of foreign birth.
This dropped off, but, as I understand it, we have now surpassed even that high level, and we now have more immigrants, by percentage, than we did then. Particularly now that we no longer push "assimilation", this could have some profound effects.
As for EARLIER times, I'm not too sure--obviously, in 1777, EVERYONE over the age of one year had been born OUTSIDE the US (!).....but in recent decades, I think we've got more immigrants now than we've ever had.
Maybe somebody could correct me, comment, or add to this?.... For example, is there a practical limit to what any nation can accept as a percentage of non-native people, without profound social effects?
If so, what is this limit, or has it ever been reached? I recall that in Kuwait, the foreign workers actually outnumber the Kuwaitis...but these aren't "immigrants" and have no hope of becoming citizens....it is understood that they are "temporary". Does any "free" society have more immigrants than we do? Any LARGE country?.......anybody know this stuff?....
Another interesting question, and one related to this, would be---how BIG is the percentage of the foreign-born sector of the US population? I seem to remember reading that, in recent history, there was a huge peak in immigration about 100 years ago, and at that time, 1/4 of the population of New York City was of foreign birth.
This dropped off, but, as I understand it, we have now surpassed even that high level, and we now have more immigrants, by percentage, than we did then. Particularly now that we no longer push "assimilation", this could have some profound effects.
As for EARLIER times, I'm not too sure--obviously, in 1777, EVERYONE over the age of one year had been born OUTSIDE the US (!).....but in recent decades, I think we've got more immigrants now than we've ever had.
Maybe somebody could correct me, comment, or add to this?.... For example, is there a practical limit to what any nation can accept as a percentage of non-native people, without profound social effects?
If so, what is this limit, or has it ever been reached? I recall that in Kuwait, the foreign workers actually outnumber the Kuwaitis...but these aren't "immigrants" and have no hope of becoming citizens....it is understood that they are "temporary". Does any "free" society have more immigrants than we do? Any LARGE country?.......anybody know this stuff?....
well...according to census:
"M0501. Percent of People Who Are Foreign Born: 2006
Universe: Total population
Data Set: 2006 American Community Survey
Survey: 2006 American Community Survey, 2006 Puerto Rico Community Survey
United States by State
United States: Estimate: 12.5 Percent, Margin of Error: +/-0.1 Percent
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2006 American Community Survey"
So... census puts it foreign born percentage at 12.5% The problem is I do not trust the numbers.
The one thing about the census is they really don't count people as they say they do. They've never come to my house to count us.
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good questions
