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Asians have become largest group of immigrants

Updated: June 19, 2012 - 12:16 AM

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Immigration from Latin America has dropped so precipitously that Asians now outnumber Hispanics among new arrivals in the United States, a study shows.

The switchover has been in place since at least 2009, according to the Pew Research Center, and is primarily the result of plunging immigration from Mexico caused mostly by economic factors.

At the same time, the number of Asian immigrants has held steady or increased.

Pew's analysis of census data estimated that 430,000 Asian immigrants came to the United States in 2010, making up 36 percent of all new immigrants, compared with 31 percent who were Hispanic.

WASHINGTON POST