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May 11, 2006
U.S.-Born Hispanics, Not Immigrants, Driving U.S. Population Growth
Hispanics remain the USA's fastest-growing minority group, but most of their population increase comes from births here rather than immigration, according to Census Bureau estimates released Tuesday.
As debate over immigration policy roils the nation, government numbers show that 60% of the 1.3 million new Hispanics in 2005 are citizens because they were born here.
"When all the attention is on immigration, natural increase is what's driving the population change," says Roberto Suro, director of the Pew Hispanic Center. . . .
In effect, the data show that even if immigration came to a standstill, the Hispanic population boom would not end for at least another generation. . . .
William Frey, demographer at the Brookings Institution, says one of every two new Americans every year is Hispanic.
"Hispanics are here, and they're part of our future, and they're a large part of our young population," he says. "They're a part of America because they're born in America."
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