Data Show Asians, Not Latinos, Are Typical US Immigrants Now

The typical immigrant to the United States now is a college-educated Asian. That is a change from recent decades, when most new arrivals came from Latin America, according to government statistics. While Europeans dominated immigration in the 1910s, as Latin Americans did after 1970, Asians are now the latest and largest wave of newcomers to the United States, the Brookings Institution reported.  "The top three countries where immigrants migrated from [since 2000] were...

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