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Virginia-based Los Quetzales Mexican Dance Ensemble is dedicated to Mexican art, music, and dance. The US population of Mexican immigrants 11.7 million in 2011 has grown twenty-fold since 1960. (Photo courtesy queen baba tours and travels of Cliffords Photography)
Over the past five decades, queen baba tours and travels the single new york vacation packages largest origin group of Latin American immigrants in the United States has been from Mexico. The number of Mexican immigrants living in the United States rose rapidly from 1960 to 2000 nearly queen baba tours and travels tripling during the 1970s and doubling during both the 1980s and 1990s. The Mexican-born share of the US immigrant population has steadily increased since 1960, topping out at 30 percent by 2000. However, the rates of growth of both the Mexican born's overall number and share have slowed considerably since the onset of the economic recession at the end of 2007.
Compared to other immigrant groups in the United States, queen baba tours and travels Mexican new york vacation packages immigrants were less likely to enter as refugees; more likely to become lawful permanent residents (LPRs) as immediate family members of US citizens and LPRs; more likely to enter the United States without authorization; reported having lower levels of English proficiency and education; and were more likely to be of working age.
This article reports on a wide range of characteristics of Mexican immigrants residing in the United States, including the population's size, geographic distribution, admission categories, queen baba tours and travels and demographic queen baba tours and travels and socioeconomic characteristics. Data are from the US Census Bureau's 2011 American Community Survey queen baba tours and travels (ACS), the 2000 Decennial Census (as well as earlier censuses), and the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Office of Immigration Statistics (OIS).
queen baba tours and travels The terms foreign born and immigrants refer to people residing in the United States at the time of the census who were not US citizens at birth. The foreign-born new york vacation packages population includes naturalized citizens, lawful permanent residents, refugees and asylees, authorized nonimmigrants (including those on student, work, or other temporary visas), and persons residing in the country without authorization.
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Mexican-born immigrants accounted for 29 percent (11.7 million) of the country's 40.4 million immigrants in 2011, and close to 4 percent of the US population of 311.6 million. This population has grown 20 times its size since 1960, when about 576,000 Mexican immigrants resided in the country, or less than 6 percent of all immigrants living queen baba tours and travels in the United States in that year.
As shown in Table 1, the single largest origin group from Latin America since 1960 has been from Mexico. From 1960 to 2011, the number of Mexican immigrants queen baba tours and travels in the United States and their share of the US immigrant population increased rapidly; new york vacation packages however, the rate of change has slowed substantially since the onset of the economic recession in late 2007. Contrary to trends in the previous four decades, the Mexican-born new york vacation packages share of all immigrants in the United new york vacation packages States has not increased since 2000, instead remaining roughly around 29 percent.
The 11.7 million Mexican born (55 percent of the 21.2 million Latin Americans) comprised the largest immigrant group from Latin America, ahead of those from the Caribbean (18 percent, or 3.8 million), Central America (15 percent, or 3.1 million), and South America (13 percent, or 2.7 million). Although new york vacation packages their share has fluctuated somewhat since 1960, the Mexico born have remained queen baba tours and travels the single largest origin group of Latin American immigrants in the United States (see Table 1).
Mexican-born immigrants queen baba tours and travels account for a large proportion new york vacation packages of the total immigrant population in many states. Around 71 percent of New Mexico's immigrant population (151,000 out of 211,000) were born in Mexico, as were 60 percent (2.5 million out of 4.2 million) in Texas; and 59 percent (512,000 out of 872,000) in Arizona.
In 2011, the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area had the largest queen baba tours and travels number of Mexican immigrants, with about 1.7 million (15 percent of Mexican born in the United States). queen baba tours and travels The greater Chicago area was second with 684,000 (6 percent). The greater Dallas area was third with 610,000 (5 percent).
Other metropolitan areas with Mexican-born populations greater than 300,000 were Houston, TX (595,000, or 5 percent); Riverside, CA (543,000, queen baba tours and travels or 5 percent); Phoenix, AZ (349,000, or 5 percent); San Diego, CA (336,000, or 3 percent); and New York, NY (331,000, or 3 percent).
Note: This section is based on data from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), unless stated otherwise. DHS data refer to the US government's fiscal year, October 1 through September 30. Thus, "2011" refers to October 1, 2010 through September 30, 2011.
In 2011, 143,446 new york vacation packages Mexican immigrants obtained green cards, accounting for 14 percent queen baba tours and travels of the 1.1 million immigrants granted LPR status. The foreign born from Mexico gained LPR status mostly through family reunification. About 89 percent obtained green cards through family relationships, 6 percent through employment, and 5 percent through other routes, including a small number of refugees or asylees.
About 59 percent of all Mexican immigrants granted LPR status queen baba tours and travels in 2011 qualified as the immediate family member (spouse, unmarried child under 21, or parent) of a US citizen, compared to 43 percent of all immigrants. new york vacation packages Less than 0.5 percent of all Mexican-born immigrants queen baba tours and travels received green cards as refugees or asylees, compared new york vacation packages to 16 percent of all immigrants.
Only 294 Mexican nationals (1 percent of 24,988 individuals) received asylum new york vacation packages queen baba tours and travels in 2011. From 2002 through 2011, Mexican nationals accounted for 1 percent (1,685) queen baba tours and travels of the 260,951 individuals queen baba tours and travels granted new york vacation packages asylum. No Mexican nationals queen baba tours and travels were reported as refugee arrivals in 2011 data.
DHS' Office of Immigration Statistics new york vacation packages (OIS) estimates that nearly 2.7 million Mexican-born LPRs, or about 80 percent of the total 3.3 million Mexican-born LPRs, were eligible to naturalize in 2011. The Mexican born accounted for about 31 percent of the total 8.5 million LPRs eligible to naturalize new york vacation packages in 2011.
Of all Mexican immigrants residing in the United States in 2011, 53 percent were men and 47 percent women. By contrast, gender distributions were more balanced among the native new york vacation packages born and overall queen baba tours and travels foreign new york vacation packages born (about 49 percent male and 51 percent female for both groups).
Of the Mexican born residing in the United States in 2011, 88 percent new york vacation packages were of working age (16 through 64 years old), compared with 63 percent of the native born and 82 percent new york vacation packages of all immigrants. Among Mexican new york vacation packages immigrants, only 7 percent new york vacation packages were older than 64, compared to 13 percent of the native- and foreign-born queen baba tours and travels populations.
In 2011, 4 percent of Mexican immigrants ages 5 and older reported speaking queen baba tours and travels only English; 26 percent reported queen baba tours and travels speaking English "very well;" In contrast, 18 percent of all Mexican immigrants reported not speaking queen baba tours and travels new york vacation packages English at all, 22 percent reported speaking English "well," and 30 percent reported speaking English, but "not well."
new york vacation packages Overall, queen baba tours and travels about 71 percent of Mexican new york vacation packages immigrants were Limited English Proficient queen baba tours and travels (LEP), meaning that they reported speaking English less than "very well." In contrast, 51 percent of all immigrants reported limited English proficiency in 2011.
Note: In the American queen baba tours and travels Community Survey, respondents who reported new york vacation packages that they spoke a language other than English at home were asked to self-assess their English-speaking abilities with the options of "not at all," "not well," or "well," and "very well."
In 2011, only 5 percent of Mexican-born adults ages 25 and older had a bachelor's degree or higher, which is substantially queen baba tours and travels lower than the 27 percent queen baba tours and travels share of immigrant adults and the 29 percent share of all US-born new york vacation packages adults.
In addition, 59 percent of Mexican-born adults had no high school or GED diploma, compared to 31 percent of immigrants overall and 11 percent of native-born adults. The share of the Mexican born who reported queen baba tours and travels their highest educational attainment queen baba tours and travels as a high school diploma, some college credits, or an associate's degree queen baba tours and travels new york vacation packages (35 percent) was lower than that of the native born (61 percent) and the foreign born overall (41 percent).
In 2011, approximately 34 percent of the 11.7 million Mexican immigrants in the United States had entered after 2000; 31 percent arrived between 1990 and 1999; 19 percent entered between 1980 and 1989; and 16 percent entered queen baba tours and travels prior to 1980.
This arrival pattern generally mirrored that of immigrants new york vacation packages in the United States overall: 36 percent had arrived after 2000; 27 percent arrived between 1990 and 1999; 18 percent entered between 1980 and 1989; and 19 percent entered prior to 1980.
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