Immigrants could alter political scene in 2010

This is another way the economy and the fact that large cities are not losing their immigrant population are affecting us, this time it is politics. - - Donna Poisl

Residents staying put in cities because of housing crunch

By Hope Yen ASSOCIATED PRESS

A steady flow of new immigrants is providing a late-decade population boost to major metropolitan areas such as Chicago, Miami, New York and Los Angeles, whose states are seeking to stem declines before the 2010 census and the political redistricting to follow, according to a new study.

Even with a recent dip in immigration, the addition of foreign migrants into those major cities has cushioned substantial population losses from native-born Americans who had migrated to interior parts of the country in search of jobs, wider spaces and affordable housing before the recession.
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