Central American Immigrants in the United States
April 5, 2017
By Gabriel Lesser and Jeanne Batalova
Guatemalan women attend mass at a church in Los Angeles. (Photo: Eric Chan)
Over the past several years, Central American migration to the United States has been the focal point of significant media and public policy attention, as the number of unaccompanied children and families fleeing gang violence and poverty has risen dramatically. In 2015, approximately 3.4 million Central Americans resided in the United States, representing 8 percent of the 43.3 million U.S. immigrants. Eighty-five percent of Central Americans in the United States were from the Northern Triangle, formed by El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/central-american-immigrants-united-states
