News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Census: More immigrants bypassing New Mexico

SANTA FE (AP) -- New Mexico is becoming less of a destination for recent immigrants than other parts of the country, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data.

The bureau's 2005 survey of American communities shows New Mexico foreign-born residents make up 8.9 percent of the population. Nationwide, they make up 12.4 percent of the population.

Unlike other states, which saw dramatic increases in the number of immigrants, the percentage of foreign-born residents in New Mexico declined, from 10 percent of the population in 2003.

Over the past five years, the nation's immigrant population grew by 16 percent, an addition of about 4.9 million people.

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