-- from the Immigration Policy Center:

The Political and Economic Power of Immigrants, Latinos, and Asians in Texas.

Immigrants and their children are growing shares of Texas’s population and electorate.

• The foreign-born share of Texas’s population rose from 9.0% in 1990, to 13.9% in 2000, to 16.0% in 2008, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.  Texas was home to 3,887,224 immigrants in 2008, which is roughly the total population of Los Angeles, California.

• 31.4% of immigrants (or 1,220,063 people) in Texas were naturalized U.S. citizens in 2008—meaning that they are eligible to vote.

• 9.3% (or 899,841) of registered voters in Texas were “New Americans”—naturalized citizens or the U.S.-born children of immigrants who were raised during the current era of immigration from Latin America and Asia which began in 1965—according to an analysis of 2006 Census Bureau data by Rob Paral & Associates.

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