Community Coalition and Immigration

The Champaign Community Coalition had its monthly meeting yesterday. More information about the organization on the Cheat Sheet here and their website here. The News-Gazette had details from yesterday's meeting:

Champaign Community Coalition gets first look at report on immigrant population
At Wednesday’s immigration-focused meeting of the city’s Community Coalition, attendees were encouraged to learn more about Champaign County’s 1 in 10 foreign-born residents.

A preview of a report on the county’s immigrant population was presented at the meeting...

Among the data that he presented: — The top regions of origin for the county’s immigrants are East Asia, North America, Europe, Southwest Asia and Southeast Asia.

— The fastest-growing regions of origin are Central America, Central Africa and East Africa. Not including the University of Illinois population, the county has immigrants from 76 countries.

— Over 80 percent of the county’s immigrants are in Champaign and Urbana. Immigrants make up one in eight Champaign residents and one in five Urbana residents.

— Out of all the county’s immigrants, onethird have become citizens, one-fourth may be eligible to become citizens and one-third may be undocumented — including Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients.

— Eight percent of the county’s population in 2000 was made up of citizens born elsewhere. That number grew to almost 12 percent in 2011 and remained around there for the next five years.

Full article here.