Apartheid. USA 1988

September 10, 1987:

The nation's Hispanic population has increased 30 percent since 1980, five times as fast as the rest of the population,

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the Census Bureau in Washington reported. The Hispanic population in America now totals 18.8 million, up 4.3 million from 1980. Of these, 63 percent are from Mexican origin, 12 percent Puerto Rican, 11 percent other Central and South American persons, 5 percent Cuban and 9 percent unspecified nationals. The Hispanic population, on the whole, is younger than the rest of the population, and it has been swollen by a steady stream of migration, legal and illegal in recent years. The Census Bureau estimated that 987 000 illegal Hispanic people had entered the US in the past seven years. The fertility rate is more than 40 percent higher for Hispanic women, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.^140.

140. The New York Times, from a report by Robert Pear