Thread: Births, not immigration, account for most of Hispanic growth

Births, not immigration, account for most of Hispanic growth in last decade
July 14th, 2011
12:01 PM ET


Mexican-American women accounted for 16% of the nation’s births in 2008.

Births have overtaken immigration as the driving force behind the growth of the Mexican-American population in the United States in the past decade, according to a report released Thursday by the Pew Hispanic Center.

The same can be said for the entire Hispanic population of the United States, which grew from 35.3 million in 2000 to 50.5 million in 2010, accounting for 16.3% of the U.S. population, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. About 58% of that growth resulted from births rather than the arrival of new immigrants, the report says.

The trend is most evident among Mexican-Americans, whose numbers grew by 7.2 million as a result of births and 4.2 million from new immigrant arrivals in the past decade, reversing trends from the previous two decades, when the number of new immigrants matched or exceeded the number of births, the report says.

Mexican-Americans are the nation's largest Hispanic group, at around 31.8 million, or 63% of the U.S. Hispanic population and 10% of the total U.S. population.

In the Pew report, the term Mexican-American applies to people of Mexican origin, regardless of immigration status. The study noted that in 2010, 52% of people of Mexican origin were in the U.S. illegally, and that 68% of births to undocumented aliens were to Mexican nationals.

What's behind the change?

Mexican-Americans are more likely than U.S.-born Americans to be in their prime child-bearing years, and they also have higher fertility rates, the report says. Another significant factor is a steep decline in Mexican immigration to the United States in recent years.

Hispanic births accounted for 25% of the nation’s newborns in 2008, the report says, citing statistics from the Centers for Disease Control. U.S. births are also disproportionately Mexican-American. While 10% of the nation’s population in 2008 was Mexican-American, 16% of the nation’s births were to Mexican-American mothers.

White children in the minority in 10 states

Meanwhile, the number of new immigrants arriving from Mexico fell by 60% between 2006 and 2010 because of declining job opportunities in the U.S., increased border enforcement and economic growth in Mexico, the report says, citing a previous Pew Hispanic Center study of Mexican immigration trends.

Age and fertility explain the high share of births among Mexican-Americans, the report says. On average, Mexican-Americans are younger than other major racial and ethnic groups, with a median age of 25, compared with 30 for non-Mexican-origin Hispanics and 41 for whites.

Mexican-American women also have more children than their counterparts in other racial and Hispanic origin groups. The typical Mexican-American woman between 40 and 44 has given birth to 2.5 children, compared with 2.3 children for the typical same-aged Hispanic woman and 1.8 children for the typical same-aged white woman, according to Pew Hispanic Center tabulations from the 2006 to 2010 June Fertility Supplements of the U.S. Current Population Survey.

The Hispanic share of the population is projected to rise from 16.3% in 2010 to 29% by the middle of this century, with the bulk of the future increase driven by births rather than the arrival of new immigrants, the report says.

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It's a lot easier to have kids if you are the ones receiving taxpayer benefits instead of the ones generating the taxes.

Most American families are too financially stretched to feel good about having kids at all much less large families.

Many illegal immigrant and new immigrant families are having kids with the intention of having Americans pay for those kids and they are having kids for political and legal advantages.

Many openly boast of their reproductive efforts as a way to seize control of American lands from the current American population.

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Originally Posted by ALIPAC

It's a lot easier to have kids if you are the ones receiving taxpayer benefits instead of the ones generating the taxes.

Most American families are too financially stretched to feel good about having kids at all much less large families.

Many illegal immigrant and new immigrant families are having kids with the intention of having Americans pay for those kids and they are having kids for political and legal advantages.

Many openly boast of their reproductive efforts as a way to seize control of American lands from the current American population.

W

DITTO!!!

Birthright citizenship is costing our country billions. It is the cause of much, if not most, of the economic drain illegals put on our hospitals, schools, and social services. When you consider that this population is increasing primarily through births, as opposed to immigration, and then handed U.S. citizenship, the implications are HUGE!

Had to go to Dr.this morning 15 July for my shoulder been going for it now about a month.Down the steet from office is a health clinic i think every hispanic goes there.This morning i bet i seen 10 battleships carrying their anchors ready to drop anytime for a landing.Made me sick.I bet if you come back in a year you will see those same ships back at the harbor with new anchor to drop.They have learned the system more kids more money and free everything they can get plus use kids ss# to get bigger things homes suv and other luxerries.