Massachusetts also might offer a more welcoming enviroment for immigrants than other states. It is mosts likely that immigrants like anyone else stayed in Massachusets, because they could find work, said director of center for labor market studies. If it weren't for immigrants,Massachusetts would have lost population in the past decade.To be sure,the number of people in Massachusetts who said they were born in Brazil has declined in the years preceding the new 2008 tally from an estimated 75,000 in 2006 to nearly 64,000 in 2007. Immigrants returned to Brazil but not in the huge numbers that some belive,partty because Brazil's economy is not as strong in their hometown.And some Brazilians moved to others states. It may be next year's data we get different picture of what's happening.
By Licelotte Perez
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