The United States is the No. 1 destination for migrants from Latin American and Caribbean countries over decades, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
A massive 67 percent of Hispanic migrants from 1990 on are in the United States, said the latest report that comes as Washington is fighting over President Trump’s border wall that is aimed to curb illegal immigration into the country.
The survey showed that other Latin American countries are not preferred, with only 16 percent moving to those nations. Ditto for Europe.
From Pew’s report out today:
In 2017, 16% of emigrants lived in other Latin American-Caribbean countries, down from 26% in 1990. Argentina was the top destination country for this group of emigrants, with 1.8 million people from other Latin American countries living there in 2017, up from 830,000 in 1990.
Meanwhile, the share of Latin American and Caribbean emigrants living in Europe reached 12% in 2017, up from 7% in 1990.
