Census Bureau: Net Mexican Immigration Has Halted

 

Immigration to the United States is down sharply from the levels of 1982 to 2007, and equaled just 0.6 percent of the 2010 population in the last two years, according to new data from the Census Bureau.

Immigration topped 1 percent of the 2010 population only in New Jersey, New York, and Florida, and was only slightly above the national average in California. In Arizona, with its enforcement of anti-illegal immigrant laws, immigration was actually down.

The Bureau reports that net Mexican immigration has halted, and California is likely getting more Asian immigrants than Hispanics.

Most immigrants in recent years have been going to just a few metropolitan areas — New York, Miami, Orlando, Boston, and Washington, D.C.

Nationally, the excess of U.S. births over deaths, 3.3 million, was nearly double the number of immigrants, 1.8 million, in the last two years.

The Census Bureau estimates that the country has grown from 308 million when the last census was conducted in April 2010 to nearly 313 million in the middle of last year, for a growth rate of about 1.7 percent.

Among the states, the fastest growth has been in North Dakota, 4 percent, thanks to the boom in shale oil production, although the District of Columbia has a higher growth rate, 5.1 percent.

After North Dakota, the fastest-growing state is Texas, where the population rose 3.6 percent and accounted for 18 percent of all American population growth.

Utah and Colorado also grew by more than 3 percent.

Two states lost population in the past two years — Rhode Island and Michigan, although Michigan appears to be rebounding in the last year, notes Michael Barone, a senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner who reviewed the Census Bureau figures.

New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Illinois suffered the largest outflow of people, more than 1 percent of their 2010 populations. Barone observes: “People evidently aren’t enamored of their high (and in Connecticut and Illinois, increased) tax rates.”

 

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