Thread: Report: Immigrant growth in Rockies outpaces nation

Report: Immigrant growth in Rockies outpaces nation
Mark Harden


The immigrant population of Colorado and other Rocky Mountain states is increasing at nearly twice the rate of the nation as a whole, according to a new report by Colorado College.

From 2000 to 2005 the immigrant population of the eight-state Rocky Mountain region grew 27 percent, as compared to a 16 percent immigrant growth rate nationwide, the report said.

The figures are for both authorized and illegal immigrants.

The immigration data are drawn from Colorado College’s latest annual “State of the Rockies Report Card,â€

• Despite high levels of recent immigration, non-immigrant Hispanics still outnumber immigrant Hispanics in each of the region’s states. In Colorado, fewer than a third of Hispanics are foreign-born.

• Poor immigrants use fewer public services than do other poor people.

Flawed logic here. The anchor babies of illegals are called "non-immigrants" and "other poor people". They wouldn't even be a factor if their ILLEGAL parents had not given birth here!