U.S. births drive population growth as immigration stalls

*This has huge implications for politics, education, media … U.S. born, English dominant Latinos are 63% of the Latino population. The percentage will grow with important consequences. VL

By Jens Manuel Krogstad and Mark Hugo Lopez, Pew Hispanic Trends Project

After four decades of rapid growth (Brown, 2014), the number of Latino immigrants in the U.S. reached a record 18.8 million in 2010, but has since stalled, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data.1 Since 2000, the U.S.-born Latino population continued to grow at a faster rate than the immigrant population. As a result, the foreign-born share of Latinos is now in decline.

Among Hispanic adults in 2012, 49.8% were born in another country, down from a peak of 55% in 2007. Among all Hispanics, the share foreign-born was 35.5% in 2012, down from about 40% earlier in the 2000s.

The slowdown in growth of the Hispanic foreign-born population coincides with a decline in Mexican migration to the U.S.

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