For years, the Edward Roybal Comprehensive Health Center in the heart of one of the country’s largest communities of Mexican immigrants in East Los Angeles has been the home of prenatal care for the record high Latino birth rate.
But in recent years officials there began seeing a noticeable drop in pregnancies among immigrant women – a decline apparently driven by the recession and which has been symptomatic of a national decline in births among immigrants.
This week, that drop became official as the Pew Research Center reported that the birth rate for foreign-born women plunged an unprecedented 14 percent between 2007 and 2010 compared with a 6 percent decline for U.S.-born women.
The Latino birth rate plummeted 19 percent for Hispanic immigrants during that period. READ MORE
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