LatinNews Daily - 14 January 2010

El Salvador: The US-based Migration Policy Institute recently released a report into the demographics of Salvadorean migration to the US. The report shows that in 2008 there were about 1.1m Salvadorean immigrants in the US, a population which has increased more than 12-fold since 1980. Salvadoreans form the sixth largest immigrant group after Mexican, Filipino, Indian, Chinese, and Vietnamese foreign born. More than half of all Salvadorean immigrants reside in just two states, California and Texas, although they are also concentrated in New York, Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. There were about 340,000 Salvadorean-born lawful permanent residents (LPRs) in the US in 2008 while the US Department of Homeland Security's Office of Immigration Statistics has estimated that 570,000, or 5% of the approximately 11.6 m unauthorized migrants in January 2008 were born in El Salvador. Salvadoreans were the second largest unauthorized immigrant group in 2008 after the Mexican born immigrants.

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