That Taco-Truck Invasion? Don't Hold Your Breath
Net immigration from Mexico is negative, and there are fewer U.S.-born Hispanics.
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Marco Gutierrez, founder of Latinos for Trump, warned darkly this month that Hispanic immigration would lead to "taco trucks on every corner." Yet, in fact, the factors that led to an explosion of taco trucks are reversing.
A recently published study by the Pew Research Center showed that the growth of the Hispanic population in the U.S. is slowing drastically. Since 2010, it has slowed to a 2.4 percent annual rate, down from 2.8 percent from 2007 to 2014, 4.4 percent between 2000 and 2007, and a high of 5.8 percent in the 1990s. The overall U.S. population growth rate is a little less than 1 percent.