African Americans

The Negroes were brought over to the US as slaves from 1619 until 1808 when slave trade/importation became illegal.

*Slavery was officially abolished in 1865 after the Civil War (Emancipation Proclamation and Abraham Lincoln). But only in the 1960s due to Martin Luther King’s actions an end was put to race discrimination.

Today African Americans constitute 12.3 % of the total USA population.

They are the 3^rd ethnic group after the white Americans (over 70% of the population) and 2)the Hispanic Americans or Latin Americans who form 12.5 % of the population---35 million.

They are from Spanish-speaking countries, especially from Mexico and the Dominican Republic or Colombia. Many Latin Americans live in California.

3) Asian Americans are one of the fastest-growing ethnic groups. More than 10 million live in the USA. They have higher income than many ethnic groups (many of them working in high-tech) and study at the best US universities.

New immigrants

In 1990 The USA established an immigration law which created a flexible cap of 675,000 immigrants each year (the actual number is almost a million) but the countries from which very few people immigrate to America are provided with “diversity” visas.

5)Illegal immigrationMore than 5 million people live in the USA without permission. The Federal Government wants to contrast a 1.125 km fence along the US-Mexico border to decrease the number of illegal immigrants.

The population of the USA now is more than 313 million people. It’s the 3^rd most populous country in the world after China and India.

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