Immigrants, welcome to California

Public Policy Institute of CA, (PPIC)/Joseph Hayes Research Associate, January 2017. "Immigrants in California." 

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"California has more immigrants than any other state. California is home to more than 10 million immigrants—about one in four of the foreign-born population nationwide. In 2015, the most current year of data, 27% of California’s population was foreign born, about twice the US percentage. Foreign-born residents represented more than 30% of the population in eight California counties; in descending order, they are Santa Clara, San Mateo, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Alameda, Imperial, Orange, and Monterey. Half of California children had at least one immigrant parent.

Most immigrants in California are documented residents. Almost half (49%) of California’s immigrants are naturalized US citizens, and another 26% have some other legal status (including green cards and visas). According to the Center for Migration Studies, about 25% of immigrants in California are undocumented.

....  The majority of recent arrivals are from Asia. The vast majority of California’s immigrants were born in Latin America (52%) or Asia (39%). California has sizeable populations of immigrants from dozens of countries; leading countries of origin are Mexico (4.3 million), China (914,000), the Philippines (859,000), India (581,000), and Vietnam (507,000). However, most (53%) of those arriving between 2011 and 2015 came from Asia; only 22% came from Latin America."  Read more.

Related.  US Census Bureau chart (1870-2015) included in the above article, "California has had high shares of foreign-born residents for decades."   Note Photograh. Sign image to Breitbart/John Nolte, 8/7/14, "Record numbers renounce citizenship; corporations choose inversion."

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