The Census Bureau’s figures for 2017 confirm a major shift in who is coming to the United States. For years newcomers tended to be from Latin America, but a Brookings Institution analysis of that data shows that 41 percent of the people who said they arrived since 2010 came from Asia. Just 39 percent were from Latin America. About 45 percent were college educated, the analysis found, compared with about 30 percent of those who came between 2000 and 2009.Pew has a new report, too.
Saturday, September 15, 2018
Foreign-Born
In 2017, the Census reports, 13.7 percent of the US population was foreign-born, the highest percentage since 1910.
