Here Are The Most Popular Destinations For Immigrants Coming To America

fleonzo · #1 Posted **Mar 30, 2014, 2:37 PM**

Immigration from abroad is a huge driver of population growth for America's biggest cities. Even though Ellis Island closed 60 years ago, New York is the country's largest magnet for immigrants.

The U.S. Census Bureau releases an annual report on population changes across the United States. Based on their data for city-centered areas, we made the map below showing levels of net international migration over the year between July 1, 2012 and July 1, 2013.

Large cities draw the most people from abroad. In particular, New York stands in a class of its own, with a level of net international migration more than twice as high as any other city.

Most smaller cities had a negligible amount of net international migration, and only a handful of cities saw any amount of net population loss to other countries, and in those cities the loss was extremely small.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/censu...#ixzz2xSO5oNkY

BnaBreaker · #2 Posted **Mar 30, 2014, 2:54 PM**

They spelled San Francisco wrong. lol

ozone · #3 Posted **Mar 30, 2014, 3:23 PM**

This isn't the height of the industrial age when cheap labor from immigrants was needed to work in the factories. Jeezh. Quality over quantity is what we need in the post-industrial economy. Oh and they misspelled San Francisco.

rellott · #4 Posted **Mar 30, 2014, 5:20 PM**

cartographically speaking, it's a crap map

DJM19 · #5 Posted **Mar 30, 2014, 6:23 PM**

So is this just city limits?

bobdreamz · #6 Posted **Mar 30, 2014, 7:05 PM**

^ it's metro areas and no surprise to see Miami at #2 after NYC.

LouisVanDerWright · #7 Posted **Mar 30, 2014, 7:18 PM**

Glad to see large numbers of immigrants are moving into Lake Michigan...

austlar1 · #8 Posted **Mar 30, 2014, 7:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by LouisVanDerWright

Glad to see large numbers of immigrants are moving into Lake Michigan...

And the San Francisco Bay!

chris08876 · #9 Posted **Mar 30, 2014, 7:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by LouisVanDerWright

Glad to see large numbers of immigrants are moving into Lake Michigan...

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llamaorama · #10 Posted **Mar 30, 2014, 11:24 PM**

Does it look like latino immigrants in rural parts of the US are going back home?

What else could explain negative international migration from a county in Alabama?

Shawn · #11 Posted **Mar 31, 2014, 12:36 AM**

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Originally Posted by llamaorama

Does it look like latino immigrants in rural parts of the US are going back home?

What else could explain negative international migration from a county in Alabama?

That's likely the case - think of all those nice new laws the Alabamas and Georgias of the US enacted recently, the proof of citizenship laws. Maybe this year will be different, but last year just how much produce rotted unpicked in these states because no migrant labor showed up to pick it off out of fear?

Last year the huge news in Japan was the Honda exec who got arrested in Alabama for being an illegal immigrant. He was ticketed at a state police roadblock despite presenting a valid Japanese passport and a valid international driver's license. Not like there was a lot of Japanese tourism to Alabama anyways, but now there's literally none, as everyone here thinks you will get arrested for being foreign in Alabama.

cabasse · #12 Posted **Mar 31, 2014, 12:58 AM**

houston and orlando are punching above their weight. would be interesting to see a breakdown of where people are emigrating from. orlando seems to have the highest population of people from asian countries of all the florida cities if i remember correctly.

i'm a little surprised atl is as low is at is, but then again we did get crushed in the downturn.

rellott · #13 Posted **Mar 31, 2014, 3:43 AM**

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Originally Posted by cabasse

houston and orlando are punching above their weight. would be interesting to see a breakdown of where people are emigrating from. orlando seems to have the highest population of people from asian countries of all the florida cities if i remember correctly.

i'm a little surprised atl is as low is at is, but then again we did get crushed in the downturn.

Punching above their weight? What do you mean in the case of Houston and Orlando?

hauntedheadnc · #14 Posted **Mar 31, 2014, 1:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by llamaorama

Does it look like latino immigrants in rural parts of the US are going back home?

What else could explain negative international migration from a county in Alabama?

Not around here they're not... The Latino population here is growing explosively.

brickell · #15 Posted **Mar 31, 2014, 4:10 PM**

We can do better. From the census itself.

Top 5 cities for intl migration by number 2012-2013 (2010-2013 numbers are similar in ranking)

NYC - 128,042
Miami - 52,706
LA - 49,798
DC - 36,871
Houston - 25,504

Top 5 by intl migration as a % of total population change (greater than a 2,500 intl migration) - all had negative population change for the year.

Cleveland - 26,414%
Pittsburgh - 2,277%
Hartford - 732%
Detroit - 482%
Rochester - 287%

The inverse of the above, Metros with the smallest share of total change being international (minimum 2,500 of international migrants)

San Antonio - 8%
Denver - 10%
Austin - 11%
Nashville - 11%
Phoenix - 12%

The 5 metro's with negative international migration

Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ Metro Area
Yakima, WA Metro Area
Odessa, TX Metro Area
El Centro, CA Metro Area
Las Cruces, NM Metro Area

novawolverine · #16 Posted **Mar 31, 2014, 4:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by brickell

We can do better. From the census itself.

Top 5 cities for intl migration by number 2012-2013 (2010-2013 numbers are similar in ranking)

NYC - 128,042
Miami - 52,706
LA - 49,798
DC - 36,871
Houston - 25,504
Boston - 24,116

Including DC.

brickell · #17 Posted **Mar 31, 2014, 4:57 PM**

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Originally Posted by novawolverine

Including DC.

Oops, Just noticed I cut off the bottom of the spreadsheet. Fixed the lists.

min-chi-cbus · #18 Posted **Mar 31, 2014, 5:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by rellott

Punching above their weight? What do you mean in the case of Houston and Orlando?

Probably per capita immigration.

And on that note, there is an article that touches on that very subject WITHIN the article posted by the OP:

http://www.businessinsider.com/popul...ion-map-2014-3

LMich · #19 Posted **Apr 1, 2014, 7:55 AM**

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Originally Posted by brickell

Top 5 by intl migration as a % of total population change (greater than a 2,500 intl migration) - all had negative population change for the year.

Cleveland - 26,414%
Pittsburgh - 2,277%
Hartford - 732%
Detroit - 482%
Rochester - 287%

This can't be right unless I'm not understanding you correctly. I'm looking at all of these, and Hartford, Detroit and Rochester all had net population increases, however small, over this period. Even Pittsburgh and Cleveland losses for 2012-2013 were tiny, -122 and -14, repsectively. Were you talking about net migration being negative? Maybe, you're talking about the 2010-2013 measurement?

Detroit: +2,151
Rochester: +908
Hartford: +708
Cleveland: -14
Pittsburgh: -122

I mean, we're talking tiny percentages, but growths among three, nonetheless.

chris08876 · #20 Posted **Apr 1, 2014, 8:19 AM**

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Originally Posted by ozone

This isn't the height of the industrial age when cheap labor from immigrants was needed to work in the factories. Jeezh. Quality over quantity is what we need in the post-industrial economy. Oh and they misspelled San Francisco.

Exactly. I always wonder if the U.S. would ever resort to allowing immigration on the scale of the late 19th, early 20th century, but then I realize that we aren't growing jobs fast enough to support such a influx of immigrants. In a perfect world though, there would be a job for everyone. It would be interesting to see how many immigrants would come here if we simply had no immigrant cap for one year; no waiting period, come right in type of deal. Would be a cool statistic to see or even ponder about. Even though the U.S. gets some negative publicity around the world, I would bet that number would be in the millions. People from China, Africa, and India would be flocking here for better opportunities.