The United States Census bureau reported that in 2002, more than one million Hispanics lived in California, Texas, Florida, Illinois, and New York. Although Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and Central-South Americans are different ethnic groups, they are commonly referred to and labeled by society as Hispanics. Mexican Americans
8) However, Latinos come from various countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, with the largest percentage coming from Mexico. During the period between 1950 and 1996, the total U.S. population grew from 151.3 million to 264.8 million. This represents an increase of more than 75%. During the same period, the Latino population grew from 4.0 million to 27.2 million, an increase of more than 600%. Latinos currently compromise 13% of the nation's population and are projected to grow to 56 million by 2010 and reach 70 million by 2020.
One third will be caught and most of those same people will try again. About half of those remaining will become U.S. residents, which add up to around 3,500 per day. Lastly, about sixty billion dollars are earned by illegal aliens in the U.S. each year. Mexico's largest revenue streams consist of money that is sent home by the immigrants working in the United States. (CAIR 1) Now that you have heard some background information and some stats on immigration, I want you to think about one thing, immigration laws.
"Operation Texas Hold 'Em" along the Rio Grande Valley of the Texas Border recently resulted in Brazilian illegal immigration dropping by 90 percent in the Rio Grande Valley and by 50 percent across the entire border. III. Improving Border Security A. Supporting details 1. Funding has increased from 4.8 billion in 2001 to 12.3 2.
One of the many races that migrated to the United States is the Vietnamese race. After the fall of Saigon, Vietnamese refugees have fled their homeland to seek for a better life. Now, 30 years later, they have become an industry of their own. According to the latest census, there are approximately 1.2 million Vietnamese Americans living in the United States. This makes Vietnamese Americans the fifth largest immigrant group in the United States , right after the Mexican, Filipino, Chinese, and Indian foreign-born (Lehman, 2000).
Immigration • The US admits about 660,000 legal immigrants per year (1998 figures). • The Immigration Act of 1990 allows for 480,000 immigrants with family in the US; 140,000 immigrants in needed employment fields; and the rest under per-country limits and diversity limits. • Foreign-born people accounted for 8% of the US population in the 1990 census; in the decades prior to 1930, the figure was 13%. • About 5 million illegal aliens reside in the US (1996 figures). • 55% of all illegal aliens come from Mexico.
At the top were 40,000 Spaniards, mainly soldiers and civil servants. On the next rung of the ladder were a million creoles, born in Mexico but of pure European descent. Below the creoles were 1,500,000 mestizos (mixed bloods) and at the bottom 3,500,000 pure Indians. In both the civil and the military arm, race was taken into account when determining advancement. Successfully passing
The first wave was about 200,000 people after Castro took over the country. The next wave was in between 1965- 1973 were more than 340,000 in program called the Freedom Flight. The last one was in 1980, were 124,000 refugees fled Cuba (Schaefer, 2006). Even though Cuban has not had many years in American, they are doing really well. Their presence is seen overwhelming in Florida.
Most Cubans are Catholic. Religion in the Cuban culture has been scarred because of past problems religious Cubans being prosecuted and denied jobs, etc. The basic language spoken in this culture is Spanish. Many Cubans with African descent speak Haitian Creole, which is the second most spoken language throughout the culture with about 300,000 speakers. Also when Cubans are addressing elders their Spanish is a bit more formal than the traditional Spanish they use amongst friends.
The Lakota language immersion centre is one of the only childcares on the reservation. * Aim: To “Help kids find a voice they have lost” by teaching the children Lakota from a preverbal age, their level of learning is enhanced and they are set up for a positive education. * Less than 10% speak Lakota 96% over 40 lost in the current generation. * 97% of parents with children in the childcare are highly supportive of their child’s education which contributes to their chance of finishing school and going to university. * Donations to the childcare fund books in their library which has the World’s largest selection of Lakota books to elevate literacy levels.