Today one in three persons living in the US is a minority. That makes it a population of about one hundred million. California reported the highest minority of about 20.7 million or roughly 21% of the nation's total. Four states and the District of Columbia are 'majority- minority.'
The minority population is made up of both legal and illegal immigrants. Hispanics are the largest, about 42% of the minority group. Minorities typically have higher birth rates with the Hispanics alone accounting for almost half of the national population growth.
Most of the increase in the population of the minorities is fuelled by an immigration boom. Almost all the immigrants legal or illegal come to the US in search of jobs. The continuing economic boom and the exploding job market are sufficiently attractive to the immigrants. A porous border with Mexico and soft laws regarding illegal immigrants encourage such attempts.
However some counties are now in a mood to fight back. Local councils are persuading businesses to stop hiring illegal immigrants and are even trying to prevent landlords from renting apartments to them. English is also being declared the official language by some as it is felt that this would discourage non English speaking people from settling there.
All this is OK but given the fact that the nation is now well and truly addicted to cheap, non unionized labor, it will require a great effort to stop illegal migration to the US.