Study: Births, Not Immigration, Driving Latino Growth In U.S. In
the last decade, births have surpassed immigration as the
driving force behind the Latino population growth in the United
States. That's according to a new study released by the Pew
Hispanic Center, today. Most of that growth, researchers found,
came from Mexican-Americans. The study found that from 2000 to
2010, 4.2 million Mexicans emigrated to the United States,
whereas 7.2 million Mexican-Americans were born in the country.
Pew reports: This is a change from the previous two decades when
the number of new immigrants either matched or exceeded the
number of births. The current surge in births among Mexican-
Americans is largely attributable to the immigration wave that
has brought more than 10 million immigrants to the United States
from Mexico since 1970. Between 2006 and 2010 alone, more than
half (53%) of all Mexican- American births were to Mexican
immigrant parents. As a group, these immigrants are more likely
than U.S.-born Americans to