US immigration back to pre–Great Recession levels, with Asians leading
Haya El Nasser in Al-Jazeera reports that immigration rates to the U.S. have rebounded to their pre-recession levels and the country’s percentage of foreign-born now is at its highest in more than a century. But the face of immigration is dramatically different than it was just a decade ago, when the bulk of the influx came from Mexico and Central America. Asians now far outnumber the number of immigrants from Latin America. The shift evidenced in the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey released last week shows a wave of immigrants who are more educated, reflecting the growing demand for qualified high-tech and health workers in the U.S. More than 1 million immigrants arrived here from 2013 to 2014, double the previous years and the largest number since 2006.
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