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2000 — present
The most recent arrivals are documented in outline, and the outline is what is printed: the census and survey series in the population file put the city's foreign-born share at 8.5 percent in the 2020–24 American Community Survey, against 6.4 percent in 2000 — growth driven, on the 2000 census's own country detail, largely by the Mexican and Central American migration the Latino entry tells. Beyond that community, the published record reached documents the newest arrivals chiefly through the institutions that serve them: La Casa de Amistad, founded for Latino teenagers in 1973, is described in the diocesan press of 2022 as a hub for assisting Latinos, immigrants and refugees in the South Bend area generally, and its Michigan Street building serves people of all cultural groups in its own account. No South Bend-specific resettlement series — agency caseloads, countries of origin by year — was found in the record reached, and none is constructed here; the fuller telling of the city's twenty-first-century arrivals belongs to the update cycle, when the organizations' own published records can be read whole.
Sources:
- Population & Demographics, this history (foreign-born series; 2020–24 ACS, 8.5 percent) — banked fragment
- Today's Catholic — "La Casa de Amistad celebrates 50 years," 28 April 2022 (the hub description)
- La Casa de Amistad — community-center page — lacasadeamistad.org