A Mexican Baby Boom in New York Shows the Strength of a New Immigrant Group
Tagged: brooklyn, New York, New York CityPosted on: June 4th, 2007“When Lilian Vazquez was born in Brooklyn on Thursday, a rosy 8 pounds 12 ounces and 20 ½ inches, she joined a baby boom among Mexican New Yorkers ”” one that bucks an overall decline in New York City births.
A new analysis by city demographers showed a 28 percent increase in births to Mexican women living here from 2000 to 2005, with 8,234 babies born in 2005, the last year for which statistics were available. For the first time, the number of babies born to Mexican women surpassed births to Dominican-born women, which dropped by more than 10 percent in the same period.”
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