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Thursday, October 23, 2008
Hispanic population grows by 30 percent this decade
The U.S. Hispanic population has grown by nearly 30 percent this decade, much of it spurred by births in the United States, according to a study released Thursday.
It found that Latinos have accounted for about half the overall population growth in the United States, which it calls a “significant new demographic milestone.”
The study was released by the Pew Hispanic Center, a non-partisan research group in Washington.
The report also found that 80 percent of the growth in the Hispanic population occurred in the South and the West.
The number one county in Hispanic population growth was Los Angeles County in California where the number of Latinos increased by about 435,000 from 2000 to 2007.
Hispanics in the report include U.S. citizens, legal residents and illegal immigrants.
Read the report here.
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Mexico to deport illegal immigrant Cubans
Mexico and Cuba signed a migration agreement this week. Under the pact, Mexico agreed to deport Cubans who sneak into Mexico en route to the United States.
According to Reuters, Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque said: “We believe now there will be fewer attempts to use Mexico as an illegal corridor for Cuban immigrants trying to get to the United States.”
Roque made the comments at a news conference with Mexican officials.
More than 11,000 Cubans slipped into the United States via Mexico last year, according to U.S. authorities, Reuters said.
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College-educated immigrants working as cab drivers, dishwashers
More than 1.3 million college-educated immigrants living in the United States are unemployed or working as taxi drivers, dishwashers, security guards or in other unskilled jobs, said a report released this week by the Migration Policy Institute.
The study — which calls the phenomenon “brain waste” — also says that highly skilled immigrants experience a sharp drop in employment status upon first arriving in the United States. However, they quickly recover depending on a number of factors, including English skills, region of origin, and length of time in this country.
Overall, college-educated immigrants from Asia and Europe fare better at finding skilled jobs than immigrants from Africa and Latin America, the report says.
“While policymakers in Europe, Canada and elsewhere are focusing intently on attracting highly skilled immigrants, it is all the more necessary for the United States to fully leverage the talents of college-educated immigrants already living here—more than half of whom came with academic degrees earned abroad,” said Michael Fix, co-author of the report.
Read more here.