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ASIANS recently passed Hispanics as the largest group of new immigrants to the United States, according to a survey today predicting a demographic trend bringing powerful economic, social and political changes. 

The survey by the Pew Research Center found the ranking switch of two largest groups of newcomers to the United States started in 2009. 

And it determined that the growing Asian population in the United States not only is large, but it is thriving. 

"Asian Americans are the highest-income, best-educated and fastest-growing racial group in the United States," the study concluded. 

The Pew centre said the change in immigration figures is largely due to declining immigration from Mexico – the source of more US immigrants than any other country – amid weakness in the US job market and a crackdown on illegal immigration.... 

Overall, Hispanics still far outnumber Asians in America. In fact, there are already more Hispanics than the 41 million Asians Pew predicts will live in the United States by 2050, if the current trend continues. 

Currently there are 18.2 million Asians in the United States or 5.8 per cent of population, up from one per cent in 1965, mostly from China, the Philippines, India, Vietnam, South Korea and Japan. 

This compares to 52 million Hispanics or 16.7 per cent of the population.