Rise, Peak, and Decline: Trends in U.S. Immigration 1992-2004
Immigration is always a hot topic in California, and the Pew Hispanic Center draws two interesting conclusions. First, immigration to the United States has not been on a steady increase, but peaked in 1999 and 2000, at the height of the economic boom, but then dropped sharply as the economy went bust. Second, and even more interesting, is that immigration is shifting away from states with large foreign-born populations like California and New York and toward new settlement states such as North Carolina and Iowa.
Rise, Peak, and Decline: Trends in U.S. Immigration 1992-2004