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Jesus Malverde

(10,274 posts)
Mon Jun 23, 2014, 09:30 PM Jun 2014

Most Latino Workers Are US-Born And Not Immigrants, New Study Finds

Alright, here are the facts: The United States has over 40 million immigrants and the U.S. Census Bureau projected that there will be no single racial or ethnic group will constitute a majority of children under 18 and in three decades, no single ethnic group will be a majority in the country.

And of the American population, there are almost 52 million Hispanics/Latinos in America and the Hispanic/Latino community is the fastest growing minority group in the United States. As such, the Latino influence in the United States is undeniable -- Latinos buy 25 percent of all movie tickets in the United States and The NPD Group found that Latinos will be changing food culture in America and according to the Selig Center for Economic Growth, the purchasing power of Hispanics in 2012 was $1.2 trillion. 

Now, the Pew Research Center is reporting an interesting finding about the majority of Hispanic workers in the United States: they are not immigrants. 

"In 2013, 49.7% of the more than 22 million employed Latinos were immigrants," explains Pew Research Center. "This share was down sharply from the pre-recession peak of 56.1% in 2007. Although Latinos have gained 2.8 million jobs since the recession ended in 2009, only 453,000 of those went to immigrants. Moreover, all of the increase in employment for Latino immigrants happened in the first two years of the recovery, from 2009 to 2011. Since then, from 2011 to 2013, the employment of Latino immigrants is unchanged."

Read More: http://www.latintimes.com/most-latino-workers-are-us-born-and-not-immigrants-new-study-finds-184938

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Most Latino Workers Are US-Born And Not Immigrants, New Study Finds (Original Post) Jesus Malverde Jun 2014 OP
And treated no differently Xipe Totec Jun 2014 #1

Xipe Totec

(43,866 posts)
1. And treated no differently
Mon Jun 23, 2014, 09:47 PM
Jun 2014

That's the elephant in the room; Does not matter whether you're born here, here legally, or here illegally. If you're brown, you're going to have problems with the Mugre.. I mean Migra; The Border Patrol and the Customs and Border "Protection" Agency.

Did I say elephant?

I meant GOP.

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