Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton will have a formidable weapon to disarm Republican anti-immigration candidates who want to virtually seal the U.S. southern border — there are already more Chinese than Mexican immigrants who enter the United States every year.
New figures from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey reveal that 147, 000 Chinese immigrants arrived in the United States from China in 2013, versus 125, 000 from Mexico. The annual survey includes both documented and undocumented migrants, and it was the first time that it showed a greater flow of immigrants from China than from Mexico.
The number of undocumented Mexicans moving to the United States has plummeted in recent years, dropping from around 400, 000 per year about a decade ago to their current numbers, demographers say.
The number of Mexican immigrants reached its lowest level in more than a half-century in 2011. In addition to the 2008 U.S. financial crisis, Mexican immigration dropped because of lower birth-rates in Mexico — fertility rates there have gone down from about 5.5 children per woman in the 1970s to about 2.5 children today — and due to President Barack Obama’s increased border security measures, including record numbers of deportations of undocumented immigrants.
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Etiquetas: Andres Oppenheimer, China, Hillary Clinton, immigration reform USA, México
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