Asians expected to outnumber Hispanics in US
“Non-Hispanic whites are projected to become less than half of the USA population by 2055 and 46% by 2065”.
Asians will be the largest immigration population by 2065, according to a report on the immigration change by Pew Research Center. Asians made up 35 percent of immigrants arriving in the U.S.in recent years, surpassing Hispanics for the first time. Meanwhile, the Hispanic share of the US population rose from 4 percent in 1965 to 18 percent in 2015.
It was 50 years ago Saturday that former President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, a landmark civil rights law that drastically diversified the origin of immigrants to the United States, who had up to then been largely white Europeans.
While the 1965 immigration policy opened up doors to immigrants from countries that were previously restricted, it closed doors to workers from Mexico and Latin America who had previously been allowed in, writes Douglas Massey, professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University, in The Washington Post.
If there’d been no immigration since 1965, Pew researchers suggest that the face of America would look like this today: 75 percent white, 14 percent black, 8 percent Hispanic and less than 1 percent Asian. Sixteen percent say they do not have much effect.
Pew also asked Americans surveyed to describe in one word immigrants now living in the US. This means that 51 percent of population boom was linked to immigrants. About 47 percent of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders don’t identify with either Republicans or Democrats, which leaves “a sizable portion of the AAPI electorate up for grabs for both parties”, according to the Center for American Progress. The survey included a poll among Americans regarding their view on people coming to the U.S.
The percentage of people living in the U.S. who were born outside the country reached 13.7% in 2015 and is projected to hit a record 14.9% in 2025, the report said.
According to the poll, 49 percent of Americans say immigration should be decreased, 34 percent say it should remain at its present level, and 15 percent think it should be increased. But when it comes to food, music and the arts, about half (49 percent) of adults say immigrants are making things better.
Arrivals from Europe, the main source of immigrants for most of the nation’s history, now make up 10 percent of new foreign-born residents.
Before the 1965 law’s inception, Ireland, Germany and the United Kingdom were entitled to 70 per cent of USA visas and weren’t using their full share.
About 50 percent of those surveyed generally view immigrants as good for the country’s economy although they also believe that many of them are also engaged in illegal activities. Today, that number is 62 percent.