Immigration Issue Reaching ‘Critical Mass’ by RICK MARTINEZ Racial/Ethnic Populations in N.C
• Northeast Partnership • Regulations Inhibit Head Helps Self, p. 5 School Choice, p. 9 Health-Care Innovation, p. 7 C A R O L I N A Airlines and Markets, p. 17 Statewide Edition A Monthly Journal of News, Analysis, and Opinion from December 2005 • Vol. 14, No. 12 the John Locke Foundation www.CarolinaJournal.com JOURNAL www.JohnLocke.org Immigration Issue Reaching ‘Critical Mass’ By RICK MARTINEZ Racial/Ethnic Populations in N.C. Contributing Editor RALEIGH Group 1990 2002 % t both the federal and state levels, the policy and rhetorical battle Total Pop. 6,632,448 8,320,146 +25.4 on immigration is, in the words Total White 5,036,958 6,178,210 +22.6 Aof one North Carolina member of Con- gress, reaching “critical mass” as it pits White 4,975,409 5,774,440 +16.1 those who support strict enforcement of Non-Hispanic current laws against those who advocate Black 1,446,367 1,793,697 +24.0 sweeping immigration-law reform. Non-Hispanic During the 1990s, North Caro- lina had the fastest growing Hispanic American Indian 80,825 106,454 +31.7 population of any state in the nation, Asian 53,102 140,491 +164.5 growing from 76,726 in 1990 to 378,963 in 2000. That’s an increase of 393 percent. Total Hispanic 76,745 444,463 +479.1 Four years later, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated the Hispanic population at Hispanic immigrants line up for services at the Mexican consulate on Source: U.S. Census, 1990 and 2002 517,617.
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