Growing share of immigrants choosing naturalization
By: Jeffrey S. Passel
Contributors: Pew Hispanic Center
Publisher: Pew Hispanic Center
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Subjects: Immigrants; Citizenship
Description: The proportion of all legal foreign-born residents who have become naturalized U.S. citizens rose to 52% in 2005, the highest level in a quarter of a century and a 14 percentage point increase since 1990, according to an analysis by the Pew Hispanic Center. Mexicans still have a comparatively lower tendency to become U.S. citizens, but the number of naturalized citizens from Mexico rose by 144% from 1995 to 2005--the sharpest increase among immigrants from any major sending country.
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