Black immigrant population in US could more than double by 2060: Study
John Moore/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- About 4.6 million Black people in the U.S. -- roughly 1 in 10 -- are immigrants, and that figure could more than double to 9.5 million by 2060, according to a study by Pew Research Center. Pew based its calculations in the study, released Thursday, on Census data collected from from 2006 to 2019 through community surveys. "The nation's immigrant population has been, to some extent, largely driven by trends from Latin America and Asia," said Mark Lopez, director of race and ethnicity research for Pew and a coauthor of the study. "But Afri...