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http://www.murthy.com/2015/05/19/new-study-reveals-changing- face-of-america/ It reveals that, while people from Latin America and Mexico, in particular, are still the dominant immigrant population in the nation, the country that is sending the largest number of immigrants to the United States is now China. In 2013, 147,000 Chinese nationals came to the United States. Not surprisingly, coming in at a close second was India, which sent 129,000 to the U.S. And, while the number of Chinese and Indian nationals coming to America has increased, the number of Mexican nationals immigrating here has been steadily declining. Several factors have been attributed to the decline in immigration from Latin America, including lower birthrates and an improved economy. William Frey, who works for the Brookings Institute, a nonprofit organization devoted to independent research and policy innovations, explained in a recent NPR interview that "we have continued employment opportunities in the United States for people in Asian countries, some in high-tech and engineering. Many come here to study in graduate school and wind up staying here. On the other hand, a lot of the kinds of low-wage jobs that attracted people from Mexico and other Latin American countries to the United States have dried up due to the Great Recession and word is getting out." |