Immigration Reality: New U.S. Census figures show Mexican population in N.J. more than doubles in past decade

New U.S. Census figures show Mexican population in N.J. more than doubles in past decade | NJ.com: "Like much of the nation, New Jersey has seen its Hispanic population grow at an amazing rate over the last 10 years. This is nothing new in a state with long-established Puerto Rican and Dominican communities. What’s perhaps most surprising about new U.S. Census demographic figures to be released today, though, is the dramatic jump in the state’s Mexican population — which saw its numbers rise by 115,000 people since 2000.

The city of Passaic accounted for much of that influx, the figures show: Nearly one of every three people living in the city identify themselves as Mexican. 'Sometimes you don’t feel like you’re in the United States. Sometimes you feel like you’re in Mexico,' said Leticia Ortega, who was born in Puebla, Mexico, and moved to Passaic more than a decade ago."