Hispanics no longer fastest growing immigrant grou

[heightsyankee]

Asians have surpassed Hispanics as the largest group of new immigrants to the United States, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center.
The study, called "The Rise of Asian Americans" and released on Tuesday, reveals that Asian-Americans also have the highest income, are the best educated and are the fastest-growing racial group in America.
About 430,000 Asians—or 36 percent of all new immigrants—arrived in the United States in 2010, according to U.S. census data. About 370,000, or 31 percent, were Hispanic.

[Related: U.S. Census: Minority babies now majority, surpassing whites for first time]
The wave of incoming Asians pushed the total number of Asian-Americans to a record 18.2 million, or 5.8 percent of the total U.S. population, according to census data. By comparison, non-Hispanic whites (197.5 million) account for 63.3 of the U.S. population, while Hispanics (52 million) and non-Hispanic blacks (38.3 million) account for 16.7 percent and 12.3 percent, respectively.
The influx of Asians reflects "a slowdown in illegal immigration while American employers increase their demand for high-skilled workers," the Associated Press said.

news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/asian-immigrants-hispanic-us-pew-report-132434717.html

[IIOY]

The WSJ had an interesting, more comprehensive article on this. The killer line was at the end, when the article stated that 3/5 of Asians polled say Americans don't put enough pressure on their kids to succeed in school: "It's too many games, baseball, and soccer." I immediately thought of copz. :-)

[chichimi]

But what are their pampers rewards?!

[marie427]

Jun 19, 2012 12:05:39 GMT -5 @mrdobalina said:

push 2 for chinese?

You stole my reply!

And DEAD at Chi's reply.

[AJL]

Dammit. I'm going to have to have more babies.

[druidp]

粪

[heyjude]

Good. Maybe this will take the heat off Mexicans stealing hot wheels.

[wrathofkuus]

I wondered if it were just Pittsburgh that seemed to have a huge Asian population and not so much of a Hispanic one. I'm somewhat relieved to see that we're not entirely freakish here.

[dylanite]

I haven't noticed a greater number of vehicle accidents of late. Hey-ohh!!!!1