Pew Hispanic Report

Pew Hispanic Report. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Fruit Grower Report.

New analysis by the Pew Research Center of Census Bureau data shows a record 33.7 million Hispanics of Mexican origin resided in the United States in 2012. This estimate includes 11.4 million immigrants born in Mexico and 22.3 million born in the U.S. who self-identify as Hispanics of Mexican origin.

The 11.4 million Mexican immigrants who live in the U.S. make up the single largest country of origin group by far among the nation's 40 million immigrants. The next largest foreign-born population group, from greater China at 2 million, is less than one-fifth the size of the Mexican-born population in the U.S.? ?Mexican immigrants comprise by far the largest share of the unauthorized immigrant population in the U.S. More than half (55%) of the 11.1 million immigrants who are in the country illegally are from Mexico. 
Internationally, the U.S. is far and away the top destination for immigrants from Mexico.

Fully 96% of Mexicans who leave Mexico migrate to the U.S. Worldwide, nine percent of people born in Mexico live in the U.S. In addition, the U.S. has more immigrants from Mexico alone than any other country has immigrants. 

That’s today’s Fruit Grower Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.