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Guatemalan migrants are the 10th largest migrant group in the United States of America., [1] and the 3rd largest immigrant group from Central America. [2] The 2015 American Community Survey estimates the Guatemalan American migrant population at 1,300,000, which is roughly 3% of the US foreign born population, and 0.4% of the total population of the United States. [3]
Very few Guatemalans have furthermore been granted citizenship. DHS data traces a range of about 6,500-9,700 Guatemalans granted citizenship annually since 2006. [9] In 2015, only 27% of the Guatemalans in the US were citizens. [10] Many Guatemalans, who are undocumented or on a temporary status, are blocked from a pathway to citizenship. [11]
These same Guatemalans lost that status once the war ended. [5] Migration from Central America had always been below 50,000. However, in 1970, the census had counted 113,913 Central American immigrants. 17,536 of those immigrants were of Guatemalan descent. This was a dramatic increase from the 5,381 count from the decade prior. [7]
Harris has led the U.S. administration's efforts to address the causes of a spike in migration from countries in Central America to the United States, and drawn criticism from Republicans for ...
The primary driver of migration over the past 10 years is the inability to get jobs to pay for the most basic necessities, said Ursula Roldán, a researcher at Rafael Landívar University in ...
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) says that “you cannot understand America without all the people who came here,” which is why he is aiming to highlight the immigrants who have made the U.S ...
The first Korean immigrants came to the country around 1985, two decades after massive migration to Hispanic America. Koreans in Guatemala are involved in processing activities, such as clothing factories which export to the United States, and other businesses such as restaurants, supermarkets, beauty salons, butcher shops, travel agencies and ...
Guatemalan officials are analyzing surveys by the U.N.'s International Organization for Migration showing from which parts of Guatemala the most migrants departed, hoping to prepare those ...