As of June 2020, Arizona had 24,140 DACA recipients, ranking it sixth among the states, according to data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. A Migration Policy Institute analysis estimated that in 2018, there were 11 million immigrants illegally in the U.S., with 281,000 of them in Arizona.
Ancestry by region | Number | % |
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Mexicans | 1,657,668 | 25.9% |
Caribbeans | 48,582 | 0.8% |
Central Americans | 36,642 | 0.6% |
South Americans | 21,895 | 0.3% |
It includes recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, the policy enacted under former President Barack Obama that gave some undocumented people protection from deportation and a work permit. Almost 24,000 Arizonans belong to the program today.
Mexico is the top origin country of the U.S. immigrant population. In 2018, roughly 11.2 million immigrants living in the U.S. were from there, accounting for 25% of all U.S. immigrants. The next largest origin groups were those from China (6%), India (6%), the Philippines (4%) and El Salvador (3%).
In 2019, there were about 10.9 million Mexican-born individuals living in the United States. This population declined by almost 780,000 people, or 7 percent, between 2010 and 2019, due in part to increased immigration enforcement and in part to a strengthening Mexican economy.
Chicano or Chicana is a chosen identity for many Mexican Americans in the United States. The label Chicano is sometimes used interchangeably with Mexican American, although the terms have different meanings.
About 61 percent of Mexican Americans live in just two states, namely California (36%) and Texas (25%). According to the 2010 census, the distribution of Mexican Americans in the United States by region is: 51.8% live in the West, 34.4% in the South, 10.9% in the Midwest, and 2.9% in the Northeast.
Population | |
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Population Characteristics | |
Veterans, 2015-2019 | 37,826 |
Foreign born persons, percent, 2015-2019 | 15.3% |
Housing |
Local tuition 12,716 USD, Domestic tuition 36,743 USD (2019 – 20)
Many of those immigrants settled in Texas, bringing the foreign-born population of Texas to almost 17% by 2010. As of 2018, Texas is home to 4,736,700 immigrants, most of whom are from Mexico.
Mexico is the top origin country of the U.S. immigrant population. In 2017, 11.2 million immigrants living in the United States were from Mexico, about one-quarter of the total immigrant population.
California has a total of 10.68 million foreign-born residents, accounting for 27.2% of its total population. Los Angeles County alone has 3.457 million immigrants. California’s immigration hubs include Los Angeles, San Diego, right near the U.S.-Mexico border, San Francisco, San Jose, and Riverside.
The African immigrant groups with the largest presence in the United States as of 2010 were Nigerians (219,309), Ethiopians (173,592), Egyptians (137,799), Ghanaians (124,696), and Kenyans (88,519) {Figure 11}.
Characteristic | Number of immigrants in thousands |
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2020 – 2021* | 226,203 |
2019 – 2020 | 284,157 |
2018 – 2019 | 313,601 |
2017 – 2018 | 303,325 |
Region or Country | Latin America |
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Non-Christian | 0.9 |
0.6 | |
0.5 | |
3.6 |
Hispanic or Latino: A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.
14.2%
The Census Bureau defines race as a person’s self-identification with one or more social groups. An individual can report as White, Black or African American, Asian, American Indian and Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, or some other race.
CHICANO/CHICANA Someone who is native of, or descends from, Mexico and who lives in the United States. … The term became widely used during the Chicano Movement of the 1960s by many Mexican Americans to express a political stance founded on pride in a shared cultural, ethnic, and community identity.
“Latino” does not include speakers of Romance languages from Europe, such as Italians or Spaniards, and some people have (tenuously) argued that it excludes Spanish speakers from the Caribbean.
Under the most common definition, pocho — or the feminine pocha — is slang for a Mexican American who is neither one nor the other, who speaks no Spanish or speaks it poorly, who is adrift between two cultures, or lives comfortably in both.
The 2020 census puts the state’s population at 29,145,505 — a 16% jump from 25.1 million in 2010. Hispanic Texans were responsible for half of that increase. Non-Hispanic white Texans now make up just 39.8% of the state’s population — down from 45% in 2010. Meanwhile, the share of Hispanic Texans has grown to 39.3%.
Most Chicanos are concentrated in the southwestern United States in what was once northern Mexico. Early settlements from Mexico began in the sixteenth century in places such as the present-day New Mexico, and most of those settlers had Spanish backgrounds.
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