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Geo answer
For today’s geo quiz we asked whether the number of immigrants to the US is going up or down, and where most of them come from. Anchor Lisa Mullins gets the answer from William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution in Washington. He says at least half of the people coming to the United States are from Latin America…and that newly released census numbers for 2007 indicate a slowdown in immigration.
For today’s Geo Quiz, we asked whether the wave of immigrants entering the US is rising or receding. And where most are coming from.
Anchor Lisa Mullins gets the answer from William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution in Washington.
The national trend and the answer to our Geo Quiz is:
The nation’s immigration boom slowed substantially in 2007. Roughly half of US immigrants are from Latin America, a quarter are from Asia, 13 percent are from Europe, and just 4 percent from Africa.