Births to Mexican women in the US are down 24% since the peak in 2007, but grew slightly from 2013 to 2014 suggesting the fall is over. Immigration is closely tied to baby-making, at least for Mexicans. Newly arrived Mexican women tend to rapidly pop out a sizable number of children, only to realize later that raising children in America is more expensive than they assumed.
The high Mexican birthrate during the Housing Bubble was of course related to the high immigration rate during Housing Bubble. The popping of the Housing Bubble hit Mexicans very hard, both in terms of defaulting on dubious loans and losing construction and mortgage vending jobs. But the big decline seems to be over.
The 2010s so far have been the decade of Asian immigrants, but now Central Americans are turning up. And the spike in Cuban births in 2014 is pretty interesting.
