China, India Surpass Mexico As Leading Sources Of New Immigrants To U.S.

*A passing of the torch, or sorts. A change for sure. So the questions are, is this a new trend? Is it a permamnent change? Latinos continue to be the largest “minority” group in the country. That won’t change for a long time. VL

By Richard Gonzales, Code Switch NPR

New data from the U.S. Census Bureau indicate a change in the flow of immigrants arriving in the U.S. from around the world and offer a look at what the nation will look like in the future.

The political debate today in Washington remains focused on the status of Hispanic immigrants; people from Latin America still dominate the population of legal and undocumented immigrants in the U.S. But it’s now China that sends more immigrants to the United States. According to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, 147,000 Chinese arrived in 2013 — the last year for which full data are available. India is second; the source of 129,000 immigrants to the States. Mexico was the country of origin for 125,000 immigrants. Korea, the Philippines and Japan are also leading countries of origin. The data include undocumented immigrants.

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