-Published: Tuesday, October 22, 2019-


By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
 

President Carlos Alvarado-Quesada traveled Sunday to Mexico City to meet Monday with President Andrés Manuel López-Obrador.

This is the first time Alvarado will meet with López-Obrador, said the government in its statement.

According to information provided by the government, among the issues being analyzed between the two presidents is the immigration crisis in the region.

The Costa Rican government proposes that the solution to the crisis must involve all countries, whether they are where the migrants originated, those that are used as transit or even the destination countries of migrants.

The press office of the government listed other issues such as technical, scientific, educational and cultural cooperation between both countries.

The president was accompanied by the minister of Foreign Affairs, Manuel Ventura, and the minister of Culture and Youth, Sylvie Durán. They returned to Costa Rica on Monday night.

According to the Washington Pew Research Center survey, there was a record of 44.4 million immigrants living in the U.S. in 2017, making up 13.6% of the nation’s population.

"This represents a more than fourfold increase since 1960, when only 9.7 million immigrants lived in the U.S., accounting for just 5.4% of the total U.S. population," said the center in its statement.

The U.S. immigrant population has more than quadrupled since the 1960s when the 1965 Immigration and Naturalization Act took effect.

Though growth has begun to slow in recent years, the number of immigrants living in the United States is projected to almost double by 2065.

The age structure of the U.S. immigrant population has changed alongside the changing immigrant origin regions. As the largest group of immigrants shifted from Europeans and Canadians to Mexicans, the largest age group moved from ages 65to 69 in 1960 to ages 40 to 44 in 2017.

Today, European and Canadian immigrants tend to be older, with a median age of 52 in 2017, said the center. Mexican immigrants are among the youngest, with a median age of 42.

The age distribution of the U.S.-born population has also transformed. In 1960, the late years of the Baby Boom generation, the population was younger than in 2017, when these age groups were much more evenly dispersed.

The Pew Center said that the U.S. unauthorized immigrant population grew rapidly between 1990 and 2007, reaching a peak of 12.2 million.

Since then, the population declined to 10.5 million in 2017. Less than half of those in the country illegally originated in Mexico, said the center. The Pew statistics differ from others that estimate the illegal residents to be as many as 30 million.

Pew Research Center, located in Washington, D.C., is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes, and trends shaping the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis, and other empirical social science research.

The full survey can be reached at Pew Research Center site.







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