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Jan 29, 2013 - Over the last decade, the number of immigrants in the U.S. has steadily grown
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Dec 06, 2012 - The number was unchanged from the previous two years and a continuation of the sharp decline in this population since its peak in 2007.
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Aug 14, 2012 - An updated analysis of President Obama's new deportation policy finds 1.7 million of 4.4 million unauthorized immigrants ages 30 and under could qualify for temporary but renewable work permits to remain in the U.S. legally.
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Jun 27, 2012 - A new tabulation of government data by the Pew Hispanic Center provides details on the ten largest groups that make up the 50.7 million Hispanics living in the U.S. The analysis looks at demographic data for each group, including nativity, education levels, English proficiency, citizenship, economics and regional distribution.
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Jun 25, 2012 - As the U.S. Supreme Court issues its ruling on Arizona's immigration law, a look at the differing opinions offered by the American public as a whole and Hispanics on the law and how best to deal with illegal immigration.
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Jun 15, 2012 - Today's announcement by the Obama Administration about a new deportation policy could benefit up to 1.4 million children and young adults who are in the United States illegally.
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Apr 23, 2012 - The largest wave of immigration in history from a single country to the United States has come to a standstill. After four decades that brought 12 million current immigrants—more than half of whom came illegally—the net migration flow from Mexico to the U.S. has stopped and may have reversed, according to a new analysis by the Pew Hispanic Center of government data sets from both countries.
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Apr 04, 2012 - Federal agencies have been using the terms "Hispanic" or "Latino" since the 1970s to describe Americans whose roots are in Spanish-speaking countries, but Hispanics have not fully embraced these terms. About half say they identify themselves most often by their family’s country or place of origin; just 24% say they prefer a pan-ethnic label.
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Jan 09, 2012 - A new Pew Hispanic Center analysis of Census Bureau data shows the foreign-born population in the U.S.-- 39.9 million in 2010 -- is 1.6% greater than it was in 2009, markedly lower than the reported increase of 4%. The new growth estimate stems from the Center's revisions to the 2009 Census data.
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Dec 28, 2011 - Latinos disapprove by a margin of more than two-to-one of the way the Obama administration is handling deportations of unauthorized immigrants. Deportations have reached record levels under President Obama, higher than those of the Bush administration. However, the survey also reveals that heading into the 2012 presidential campaign, Obama and the Democratic Party continue to enjoy strong support from Latino registered voters, despite a decline in Obama's job approval rating.
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Dec 01, 2011 - Nearly two-thirds of the 10.2 million unauthorized adult immigrants in the United States have lived in this country for at least 10 years and nearly half are parents of children under 18, according to new estimates by the Pew Hispanic Center.
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Jul 14, 2011 - According to a new Pew Hispanic Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data, births have overtaken immigration as the main driver of the dynamic growth in the U.S. Hispanic population, especially among the largest of all Hispanic groups -- Mexican-Americans.
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Jun 13, 2011 - The 2010 Census found more persons of Puerto Rican origin living in the 50 states and D.C. than in Puerto Rico. This analysis shows differences and similarities between the two groups.
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May 26, 2011 - A new report from the Pew Hispanic Center reveals that Hispanics of Mexican, Puerto Rican and Cuban origin or descent remain the nation's three largest Hispanic country-of-origin groups, according to the 2010 U.S. Census.
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Feb 01, 2011 - As of March 2010, 11.2 million unauthorized immigrants were living in the U.S., virtually unchanged from a year earlier; the number in the nation's workforce (8 million) also remained unchanged over the preceding year.
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Oct 29, 2010 - In the year following the official end of the Great Recession in June 2009, foreign-born workers gained 656,000 jobs while native-born workers lost 1.2 million, according to a new analysis of U.S. Census Bureau and Department of Labor data by the Pew Hispanic Center.
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Oct 28, 2010 - The national political backlash against illegal immigration has created new divisions among Latinos and heightened their concerns about discrimination against members of their ethnic group-including those who were born in the United States or who immigrated legally.
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Sep 01, 2010 - The annual inflow of unauthorized immigrants to the United States was nearly two-thirds smaller in the March 2007 to March 2009 period than it had been from March 2000 to March 2005, according to new estimates by the Pew Hispanic Center.
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Aug 11, 2010 - An estimated 340,000 of the 4.3 million babies born in the United States in 2008 were the offspring of unauthorized immigrants, according to a new analysis of Census Bureau data by the Pew Hispanic Center.
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May 12, 2010 - The public broadly supports a new Arizona law aimed at dealing with illegal immigration and the law’s provisions giving police increased powers to stop and detain people who are suspected of being in the country illegally.
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Apr 01, 2010 - A new Pew Research Center survey of Latinos finds that foreign-born Latinos are more positive and knowledgeable about the 2010 Census than are native-born Latinos. While majorities of both groups say that the census is good for the Hispanic community, the foreign born are significantly more likely to feel this way.
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Dec 11, 2009 - Never before in this country's history has a minority ethnic group made up so large a share of the youngest Americans. The first in a series of reports on Millennials focuses on this group which will help shape 21st-century America.
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Nov 23, 2009 - Polls find significant support for both tougher enforcement and a "path to citizenship," but several factors suggest that a new push for reform could be a difficult one.
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Jul 22, 2009 - The flow of immigrants from Mexico to the United States has declined sharply since mid-decade, but there is no evidence of an increase during this period in the number of Mexican-born migrants returning home from the U.S., according to a new analysis by the Pew Hispanic Center of government data from both countries.
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Apr 14, 2009 - Unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S.—now estimated to number 11.9 million—are more geographically dispersed but their recent rapid growth in the labor force has halted. A new demographic analysis of this group by the Pew Hispanic Center includes population and labor force estimates for each state.
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Feb 18, 2009 - In 2007, Latinos accounted for 40% of all sentenced federal offenders—more than triple their share of the total U.S. adult population.
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Feb 12, 2009 - The current recession is having an especially severe impact on employment prospects for immigrant Hispanics. The unemployment rate for foreign-born Latinos increased 2.9 percentage points from the fourth quarter of 2007 to the fourth quarter of 2008 compared with an economy-wide increase of 2.0 percentage points. Trends in other key indicators also reveal a more severe impact on immigrant Latinos.
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Jan 15, 2009 - Latinos, who heavily supported Obama in the November election, rate such issues as the economy, health care and education as the more important issues facing the country. Hispanics were more likely to be first-time voters than were others in the general public.
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Oct 02, 2008 - There were 11.9 million unauthorized immigrants living in the United States in March 2008, according to new Pew Hispanic Center estimates. The inflow of immigrants who are undocumented has now fallen below that of immigrants who are legal permanent residents, reversing a trend that began a decade ago.
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Sep 18, 2008 - Half of all Latinos say that the situation of Latinos in this country is worse now than it was a year ago, according to a nationwide survey of Hispanic adults conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center. On the question of immigration enforcement, Latinos disapprove of all five enforcement measures asked about in this survey—and generally do so by lopsided margins.
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Aug 13, 2008 - A Pew Hispanic Center/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation study finds that more than one-fourth of Hispanic adults in the U.S. lack a usual health care provider, but when asked about why that is so, a plurality (41%) say the principal reason is that they are seldom sick
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Feb 11, 2008 - If current trends continue, immigrants arriving from 2005 to 2050 and their descendants will account for 82% of the population growth in the United States during this period, according to new projections from the Pew Research Center. The nation’s racial and ethnic mix will change markedly by mid-century, the projections show, and the nation’s elderly population will more than double in size.
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Nov 29, 2007 - This report from the Pew Hispanic Center examines the dramatic increase in English-language ability from one generation of Hispanics to the next.
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Jun 01, 2007 - The public is ambivalent about the immigration bill being debated by the Senate.Yet one of the bill's primary goals, to provide a way for people who are in this country illegally to gain legal citizenship under certain conditions, wins broad bipartisan support.
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Sep 01, 2006 - What’s most in the national interest in the immigration debate? Credible, unbiased information—and that’s the work of the Pew Hispanic Center.
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Jul 13, 2006 - National survey of Latinos' attitudes surrounding the policy discussions on immigration in June 2006.
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Mar 07, 2006 - Pew Hispanic Report on unauthorized migrant population, with estimates based on a March 2005 population survey.
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Dec 05, 2005 - Report is the third in a series on the findings from a survey of Mexican migrants.
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Sep 27, 2005 - Detailed analysis of immigration statistics produced by the Pew Hispanic Center offers insights into the pace and content of migration.
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Aug 19, 2005 - Immigration policy survey of the Latino population in the U.S. and in Mexico by the Pew Hispanic Center.
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Jun 15, 2005 - Most of the unauthorized population in the United States lives in families, a quarter has at least some college education and that illegal workers can be found in many sectors of the U.S. economy, according to this Pew Hispanic Center study.
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Mar 21, 2005 - Reports details estimates for size and characteristics of population of foreign-born persons living in the United States without documentation.
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