Census figures show 70 percent of California’s Mexican population are U.S. citizens
Tagged: California, citizenship, populationPosted on: November 4th, 2007
For the first time in the most current wave of immigration, U.S. Census figures show that 70 percent of California’s Mexican population are U.S. citizens, blunting widespread belief the state is overrun by illegal immigrants.
The findings are part of new data that casts a spotlight on a steady demographic transition between 2000 and 2006, with the state leading the nation in the number of Mexican immigrants gaining citizenship.
California’s Mexican population, boosted by a boom in births, is moving steadily into citizenship, with Mexican-Americans comprising about 7.6 million of the state’s 36 million citizens in 2006.”*
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