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Immigrant population hits all-time high
More than half of S.J.'s newcomers are from Mexico
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Jennifer Torres
By Jennifer Torres
Record Staff Writer
September 23, 2008 6:00 AM

The nation's immigrant population has reached an all-time high of 38.1million people, including 167,945 in San Joaquin County, according to figures released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.

California - where immigrants make up 27.4 percent of the population (roughly 10million of the state's 36.5million residents) - has the largest foreign-born population in the country.

San Joaquin County's immigrant population is slightly smaller - representing about 24 percent of residents - but still is about twice as large as the nation's overall average of 12.6 percent.

The census figures released today offer 2007 estimates in a range of social, housing and economic areas, including citizenship status, marriage history, English ability, education level and commute time.

The data reveal that in San Joaquin County, as in California as a whole, numbers of immigrants and Spanish speakers continue growing.

Among the county's immigrants, about 24 percent have entered the country within the past seven years, and more than half - 52 percent - came from Mexico.

Overwhelmingly, foreign-born people living in the county are not citizens, but Census Bureau statistics do not track whether they have immigrated illegally.

While English remains the county's dominant language - 62 percent of county residents speak only English - fully 25 percent of residents speak Spanish at home.

Of those people, roughly half also speak English very well.

California, meanwhile, is one of four states - along with Arizona, New Mexico and Texas - in which at least one in five residents speak Spanish at home.

Nationally, about 19.7 percent of people 5 and older speak a language besides English at home. That figure has increased from 13.8 percent in 1990 and 17.9 percent in 2000.

For complete data, go to www.census.gov.

Contact reporter Jennifer Torres at (209) 546-8252 or jtorres@recordnet.com.

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40 MILLION non-assimilated immigrants

Originally Posted by vmonkey56

40 MILLION non-assimilated immigrants

Not all are non-assimilated. Many value America and are assimilating.

Please avoid blanket statements that are both inaccurate and offensive to legal immigrants.

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I have to ask...what type of 'immigrants' are they referring to in this article? Legal, illegal, or both?

Originally Posted by NoBueno

I have to ask...what type of 'immigrants' are they referring to in this article? Legal, illegal, or both?

These articles never distinguish between illegal and legal. IMO, its too much, too fast. America cant keep allowing immigration to happen at such a rapid pace, because we are going to run out of resources. Water is already scarce in some areas. Roads, hospitals and schools are crowded. Its insane.

And still this is not enough for the open border, pro-illegal alien, anti-immigrant cabal.

my, my, THEY are having a problem deciding if the numbers are going up or down...just the other day I read an article that said the numbers were decreasing!! because of the economy, so which is it? you can not have it both ways!

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NOW is the time for ACTIVISM...get involved!!
"United we Stand" "Divided we Fall"
lets UNITE and tell them "NO" NO MORE "NO BAIL OUT"
They ship our jobs out, flood our country with cheap labor,
Legal and illegal and they want MORE. This folks is only the beginning....
fight back NOW, it is time to shut down the GREED and STOP the destruction of
"AMERICA" and "WE THE PEOPLE".
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