When President Obama last Friday announced changes to deportation policies in the U.S., crowds directly related to the issue immediately reacted with great joy.
The change grants 'unauthorized' teen immigrants the right to stay in the U.S. and according to one report published by the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center, the number of such group could reach up to 1.4 million individuals.
The group would include about 700,000 unauthorized immigrants between the ages 18 and 30 who arrived to the U.S. as children and attended or graduated from high school in addition to 700,000 children(under 18 years of age) who are currently attending school, said the report.
There are currently 11.2 million unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. and 1.4 million represents about 12 percent of the group as of 2010.
The report also estimates that about 980,000 of the people who will benefit from the grant to stay are from Mexico.
There are approximately 50.5 million Hispanics as of 2010 representing the largest minority group in the U.S. By July 1, 2050, this number is projected to grow to 132.8 million constituting 30 percent of the overall population at that point.
For more information, view the Pew Hispanic Center's report.
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