-- 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 [1],
to 13.9% in 2000 [2],
to 16.0% in 2008 [3],
according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Texas was home to 3,887,224
immigrants in 2008 [4],
which is roughly the total population of Los
Angeles, California [5].
- 31.4% of immigrants (or 1,220,063 people) in
Texas were naturalized U.S.
citizens in 2008 [6]—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 [7].
Read the Full Report [8]
Links:
[1] http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/c2kbr-34.pdf#page=3
[2] http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/c2kbr-34.pdf#page=3
[3] http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/STTable?_bm=y&-context=st&-qr_name=ACS_2008_1YR_G00_S0501&-ds_name=ACS_2008_1YR_G00_&-CONTEXT=st&-tree_id=307&-redoLog=false&-geo_id=04000US48&-format=&-_lang=en
[4] http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/STTable?_bm=y&-context=st&-qr_name=ACS_2008_1YR_G00_S0501&-ds_name=ACS_2008_1YR_G00_&-CONTEXT=st&-tree_id=307&-redoLog=false&-geo_id=04000US48&-format=&-_lang=en
[5] http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06/0644000.html
[6] http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/STTable?_bm=y&-context=st&-qr_name=ACS_2008_1YR_G00_S0501&-ds_name=ACS_2008_1YR_G00_&-CONTEXT=st&-tree_id=307&-redoLog=false&-geo_id=04000US48&-format=&-_lang=en
[7] http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/default/files/docs/NewCitizenVotersWEBversion.pdf#page=25
[8] http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/just-facts/new-americans-lone-star-state
