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According to the 2010 US Census, the Guatemalan-born population totaled 1,044,209 people, comprising 2.1% of the overall immigrant population of the US, and making Guatemala the 10th highest sender of immigrants in the US. [1] Up until the 1960s, Guatemalan migration to the US was negligible. [2]
Immigration in Guatemala constitutes less than 1%, some 140,000 people, and most come from neighboring countries. Guatemala's historic ethnic composition is mostly immigrant stock from Europe and as well as Asian and Africans brought during the era of slavery.
Guatemalan migrants are the 10th largest migrant group in the United States of America., [1] and the 3rd largest immigrant group from Central America. [2] The 2015 American Community Survey estimates the Guatemalan American migrant population at 1,300,000, which is roughly 3% of the US foreign born population, and 0.4% of the total population of the United States. [3]
Guatemala has agreed to accept flights of illegal immigrants from the U.S., Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Wednesday.
Federal authorities in Los Angeles arrested two alleged leaders of a criminal organization suspected of smuggling 20,000 people from Guatemala to the U.S. and charging each person as much as ...
Guatemala has pledged a 40% increase in deportation flights carrying Guatemalans and migrants of other nationalities from the United States, President Bernardo Arévalo announced Wednesday during ...
Immigration to the United States from Guatemala truly increased in 1977 with a total of 3,599. This was an 82% increase since the year prior. [7] For the most part, this was due to the lack of stability within Guatemala's agricultural economy. For many Guatemalans, the agricultural economy was the job market for the disadvantaged.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has apprehended an illegal alien from Guatemala in Massachusetts, who was charged with multiple counts of child rape.. ICE said 49-year-old Jose ...