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During the 1990s, the U.S. immigrant population experienced its largest immigration
increase ever - about 11.3 million people. As a result, the foreign-born
share of the population jumped from 7.9 percent in 1990 to 11.1 percent in Statistics -
2000. Yet Census Bureau estimates at the beginning of the new century
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indicate that the enormous increase of the 1990s will pale by comparison
to the increase that will take place by the time we reach 2010. If
immigration continues at its current rate for the rest of the decade, the
immigrant population will have increased by another 14 million, reaching a
total of 45 million residents, and it will constitute 14.2 percent of the
population.

IMMIGRATION INCREASES IN THE STATES

A comparison of the annual average rate of immigrant settlement during
the 1990s with the rate since 2000 reveals both the scope and the
magnitude of the increasing wave of immigration into the United States. 2It
also shows how the new immigrants are spreading broadly across the
country.

New immigrant settlement in the traditional major settlement states (New
York, California, New Jersey, Florida, Texas, and Illinois) is running more
than a quarter million immigrants higher each year than during the 1990s.
However, a number of new states have the highest jumps in the rate of
immigrant settlement. Since 2000, North Carolina, Colorado, Georgia,
Indiana, Wisconsin, South Carolina, and Alabama are all receiving more
than triple the rate of new immigrants than during the previous decade. An
additional 19 states are now receiving more than double the rate of new
immigrant settlement before 2000.

Every U.S. state has had a significant increase in immigrant settlement
since the beginning of the 21st century, according to Census Bureau
estimates. 3When compared to the average immigrant settlement during
the 1990s, more than half of all states have had increases of more than

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5,000 immigrants per year. For example, the Census Bureau estimated
that immigrant settlement accounted for a yearly increase of about 6,500
residents in North Carolina during the 1990s. Since 2000, the yearly
increase from immigration in North Carolina is estimated to be more than
29,300 residents. So the annual average number of immigrants settling in
the state has jumped by nearly 23,000 newcomers-a more than tripling of
the rate of immigrant settlement. North Carolina is one of 16 states where
the increase in immigrant settlement has shot up by more than 10,000
residents per year.

STATES WITH MORE THAN A 10,000 INCREASE IN ANNUAL IMMIGRANT
SETTLEMENT

The 16 states with the largest jumps in immigrant settlement since 2000
include the six traditional immigrant destinations, as well as ten other
states that have become new primary destinations for immigrants (see
Table 1 below). All of these states now must cope with from 23,000 to
335,000 new immigrants each year (except for Nevada, which, on a per
capita basis, has an even higher rate of immigration impact than other
states with larger numbers of new immigrants).

1. States with Greater than a 10,000 Increase in Immigration
State '90s Avg. '01-02 Avg. No. Incr. Pct. Incr.
1 N.C. 6,458 29,358 22,900 354.9%
2 Col. 7,264 22,889 15,625 215.1%
3 Ga. 11,760 36,491 24,731 210.3%
4 Ariz. 11,794 34,381 22,587 191.5%
5 Nev. 6,174 16,646 10,472 169.6%
6 Mich. 11,082 24,947 13,865 125.1%
7 Va. 16,193 30,446 14,253 88.0%
8 Tex. 79,491 147,936 68,445 86.1%
9 Mass. 16,426 28,977 12,551 76.4%
10 Wash. 16,314 28,737 12,423 76.1%
11 Md. 14,652 25,762 11,110 75.8%
12 Ill. 42,670 74,965 32,295 75.7%
13 Fla. 71,123 122,457 51,334 72.2%
14 N.J. 41,981 61,587 19,606 46.7%
15 Cal. 253,373 335,308 81,935 32.3%
16 N.Y. 123,090 152,759 29,669 24.1%

SETTLEMENT

An additional eleven states had increases of over 5,000 immigrants per
year when their pre- and post-2000 data were compared. Among these
states, three of them more than tripled their annual average number of
new immigrants (Indiana, Wisconsin, and Utah). Another six of these
states had rates of increase that were more than double the rate during
the 1990s. All of these states have been adding near to or more than
10,000 immigrants to their population each year since 2000 (see Table 2



below).

2. States with Greater than a 5,000 Increase in Immigration
1 Ind. 3,228 10,932 7,704 238.7%
2 Wis. 2,774 9,110 6,336 228.4%
3 Utah 3,371 10,528 7,157 212.3%
4 Tenn. 3,365 9,649 6,284 186.7%
5 Kan. 3,137 8,564 5,427 173.0%
6 Ohio 5,880 14,461 8,581 145.9%
7 Minn. 6,130 14,073 7,943 129.6%
8 Mo. 4,261 9,282 5,021 117.8%
9 Ore. 7,360 15,123 7,763 105.5%
10 Conn. 8,154 15,449 7,295 89.5%
11 Penn. 12,754 22,523 9,769 76.6%

SETTLEMENT

While the above 27 states account for the primary immigrant destinations
both prior to and since the turn of the century, an additional 14 states have
had since 2000 jumps of more than 1,000 immigrants per year above the
immigrant settlement rate of the 1990s. Two of these states (South
Carolina and Alabama) have more than tripled the annual immigrant
settlement, and another eight states have more than doubled the level of
immigrant settlement. These states are ones that have not been
destinations for sizable numbers of immigrants until recently, but the
numbers below (in Table 3) show that this is changing.

3. States with More than a 1,000 Increase in Immigration
1 S.C. 2,063 6,897 4,834 234.3%
2 Ala. 1,575 4,821 3,246 206.1%
3 Miss. 765 2,223 1,458 190.6%
4 Ky. 1,763 5,119 3,356 190.4%
5 Neb. 1,682 4,729 3,047 181.2%
6 N.H. 777 1,996 1,219 156.9%
7 Iowa 2,350 5,846 3,496 148.8%
8 Okla. 3,182 7,637 4,455 140.0%
9 Del. 1,029 2,288 1,259 122.4%
10 R.I. 1,815 3,795 1,980 109.1%
11 Ark. 1,134 2,221 1,087 95.9%
12 Idaho 2,005 3,585 1,580 78.8%
13 La. 2,879 4,231 1,352 47.0%
14 N.M. 4,252 6,226 1,974 46.4%



STATES WITH LESS THAN A 1,000 INCREASE IN ANNUAL IMMIGRANT
SETTLEMENT

The final nine states and Washington, D.C. are, for the most part,
locations that have not been traditional destinations for immigrants and
have not yet become major destinations. The exceptions are Hawaii,
where immigrant settlement is high, but has tended to level off in recent
years, and Washington, D.C., where immigrant settlement numbers are
low only because it is such a small jurisdiction; D.C. is, in fact, a major
immigrant settlement area when the much greater metropolitan statistical
area is considered. Despite the comparatively low numbers of new
immigrants settling in these states, two of them have more than tripled
their rate of immigrant settlement (South Carolina and Alabama), and all of
these jurisdictions have had increases in immigrant settlement since the
turn of the century (as shown in Table 4 below).

4. States with Less Than a 1,000 Increase in Immigration
1 Wyo. 224 505 281 125.4%
2 Maine 433 945 512 118.2%
3 W.V. 385 669 284 73.8%
4 Alaska 983 1,612 629 64.0%
5 Vt. 551 899 348 63.2%
6 Mont. 306 459 153 50.0%
7 S.D. 543 786 243 44.8%
8 D.C. 3,330 4,276 946 28.4%
9 N.D. 589 694 105 17.8%
10 Hawaii 6,025 6,503 478 7.9%

PROJECTED 2010 IMMIGRANT SHARE FOR THE STATES

If the current trend in immigrant increase continues for the rest of this
decade, the states with the highest rates of increase will all see major
jumps in their immigrant populations and in the immigrant share of the
population.4

The 15 states with the largest increases in immigrant settlement (Table 5
below) account for 11.5 million of the 13.9 million additional immigrants
who the country will be required to accommodate if the current
immigration pattern is unchanged. For a state like California, facing
enormous fiscal problems caused, in part, by its enormous immigrant
population, the prospect of absorbing an additional 3.4 million immigrants
and the immigrant share rising from over one-quarter to nearer to one-
third of the population is a troublesome prospect. A similar specter may be
seen for New York, Texas, and Florida, which will each have to deal with
more than an additional one million new immigrants during the decade if
the current immigration pattern continues.

That gargantuan demographic change will batter state policymakers like
never before. Gov. Schwarzenegger, for example, needs to immediately
begin planning how his administration will deal with the prospect of more
than one million additional immigrants settling in the state over the next



three years. He should seriously consider policies to deter illegal
immigrant settlement in the state - besides rescinding the unpopular bill
giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. He should ask California's
congressional delegation to actively support measures not only to reduce
illegal immigration, but also to scale back legal immigration. But California
is not alone in being confronted with massive new immigrant settlement,
and it is irresponsible for the federal government not to be actively
discharging its constitutional responsibility to regulate immigration so that
it becomes less of a burden on the states.

5. 15 Highest Immigrant Number 15 Highest Immigrant Share
State 2000 Imm. 2010 Imm. State 2000 Pct. 2010 Pct.
1 Cal. 8,864.3 12,217.3 Cal. 26.2% 31.4%
2 N.Y. 3,868.1 5,395.7 N.Y. 20.4% 26.4%
3 Tex. 2,899.6 4,379.0 N.J. 17.5% 22.7%
4 Fla. 2,670.8 3,895.4 Hawaii 17.5% 20.8%
5 Ill. 1529.1 2,278.7 D.C. 12.9% 20.6%
6 N.J. 1,476.3 2,092.2 Fla. 16.7% 20.2%
7 Mass. 773 1,062.8 Tex. 13.9% 17.6%
8 Ariz. 656.2 1,000.0 Nev. 15.8% 17.6%
9 Ga. 577.3 942.2 Ill. 12.3% 16.8%
10 Wash. 614.5 901.8 Mass. 12.2% 15.7%
11 Va. 570.3 874.7 Ariz. 12.8% 15.2%
12 Md. 518.3 775.9 Conn. 10.9% 14.6%
13 Mich. 523.6 773.0 R.I. 11.4% 14.2%
14 N.C. 430.0 723.6 Md. 9.8% 13.2%
15 Col. 369.9 526.2 Wash. 10.4% 13.0%

1. The 1.4 million per year increase is a net amount after accounting
for deaths and out-migration. The Census Bureau estimates the
current out-migration of immigrants at about 300,000 per year,
which implies that the total number of new immigrants arriving is in
excess of 1.78-1.8 million each year.
2. The Census Bureau found in the 2000 Census data that it had
underestimated magnitude of the increase in illegal immigrant
settlement during the 1990s. This means that when the CPS
estimate for 1990-99 is compared with CPS estimates for 2000-02
that the amount and rate of increase may be overstated in some
cases. This is especially true for states other than the largest six
settlement states. The other states were estimated to account for
20 percent of the illegal alien population in 1996 and 32 percent in
2000. This would not, however, account for more than about one
million of 2.4 million increased immigrant settlement in these states.
3. Data are taken from Census Bureau estimates from the Current
Population Survey (CPS) for 1999 and 2002 and the annual
average is calculated for 1990-99 and for 2000-02. The CPS
estimates include all U.S. residents, whether legal or illegal.
4. The estimates are based on a continuation of the trend in native-
born change during 1990-2000 and a continuation of the trend in
immigrant settlement during 2000-2002.



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