Census survey offers more clues into immigrant boom during 1990s

AP ^ | November 21, 2001

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WASHINGTON - More foreign-born Americans live in longtime immigrant gateway New York than any other city, but midsize cities in the South and Midwest attracted higher percentages of new immigrants during the 1990s.

Estimates released Tuesday from the Census 2000 Supplementary Survey offered more clues into the demographic makeup of an increasingly diverse country.

For instance, 39,614 people in Raleigh in the southern state of North Carolina were born abroad, almost 15 percent of the city's population. But 74 percent of foreign-born Raleigh residents arrived in the United States between 1990 and 2000, and 82 percent are not citizens.

More than two-thirds of immigrant residents in Charlotte, North Carolina; Memphis in the southern state of Tennessee; and Minneapolis in the Midwest also arrived in the country during the 1990s, the survey showed.

An availability of lower-paying blue-collar jobs, as well as high-tech and medical positions, helped lure new immigrants to these areas, said John Haaga, a demographer with the nonprofit Population Reference Bureau.

Numbers on foreign-born Americans are important for government officials and demographers analyzing why the country's Hispanic population surged higher than expected.

Survey results are separate from the official 2000 census. The census has placed the Hispanic population at 35.3 million, 2.5 million more than previously estimated. Hispanics now rival blacks as the country's biggest minority group.

Early 2000 census estimates also placed the country's foreign-born population at over 31 million, with roughly 8 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States.

The bureau said estimates from the Census 2000 Supplementary Survey are a preview of data still to come from the official head count.

New York had the greatest number of foreign-born residents at 2.8 million, 36 percent of the city's population. Of that total, 44 percent entered the country in the past decade, and 55 percent were not citizens.

Nearly 61 percent of Miami residents were born outside the United States, highest percentage in the nation.

Places with higher proportions of foreign-born Americans, including several Texas counties on the U.S.-Mexico border, tended to have higher poverty rates, lower median household incomes and fewer well-educated people.

On the Net: Census Bureau: http://www.census.gov/

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Places with higher proportions of foreign-born Americans, including several Texas counties on the U.S.-Mexico border, tended to have higher poverty rates, lower median household incomes and fewer well-educated people.

All new Democrat voters.

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A low wage country is the goal:

Greengrocers to Pay $315,000 in Back Wages

acing charges that they paid workers less than $3 an hour, three greengrocers in Lower Manhattan agreed yesterday to pay $315,000 in back wages to 31 workers to settle a lawsuit brought by State Attorney General Eliot L. Spitzer.

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These produce stores, state officials said, sometimes paid just $2.61 an hour even though the federal minimum wage is $5.15 an hour and overtime laws require paying at least one-and-a-half times that amount for all hours worked over 40 per week

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Mr. Spitzer announced the settlement yesterday at a news conference at the Mexican Consulate because almost all the greengrocers' employees are Mexican immigrants, many of them illegal immigrants.

[Brownie74]

Census 2000 Supplementary Survey offered more clues into the demographic makeup of an increasingly diverse country.

What are we trying to build here? Another Tower of Babel?

Facing charges that they paid workers less than $3 an hour, three greengrocers in Lower Manhattan agreed yesterday to pay $315,000 in back wages to 31 workers to settle a lawsuit brought by State Attorney General Eliot L. Spitzer.

Jeeeez - that comes out to $10,161.29 per person. But then again "almost all the greengrocers' employees are Mexican immigrants, many of them illegal immigrants". I don't have to tell you where that money is going do I? It is going to be one big Feliz Navidad in Mexico. I wonder how much they paid in income tax?

When will we have a new civil war?

That is a tough one to answer. Does the average American have the stomach to fight for what is right? Some do and some don't. But, if it does come down to that, I don't think it is very far off. Lets hope Washington gets their act together and does what is right for the American people and that it does not come down to that.

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Evidence of linguistic change has been clear in the city over the last decade. In Queens, for instance, business owners have hung up Korean and Chinese-language signs in downtown Flushing, Spanish signs in Jackson Heights and Corona, Russian signs in Forest Hills and Bengali signs in Astoria.

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The data make it clear that the city will need to provide more English-language classes and to ensure better access to services for non-English speakers, said Margie McHugh, the executive director of The New York Immigration Coalition.

[Brownie74]

....census figures show a large foreign-born population calling New York home. Citywide, 35.5 percent of New Yorkers reported being foreign-born, according to the data. In Queens, that rose to 45.7 percent.

Also other large cities like Miami, Los Angeles, and Seattle, just to name a few, share similiar figures. Don't allow our representatives (like Hillary Clinton) to call for an end of the electoral college. That will be straw that broke the camels back. The urban (democrat) population will rule the rural (republican) population. I think you are going to hear more on this issue between now and 2004.

[Cobra64]

...But 74 percent of foreign-born Raleigh residents arrived in the United States between 1990 and 2000, and 82 percent are not citizens. ...

While the StainMaster was getting a hummer in the Oral Office.

[mom of 2 GOP kids]

...But 74 percent of foreign-born Raleigh residents arrived in the United States between 1990 and 2000, and 82 percent are not citizens. ...

While the StainMaster was getting a hummer in the Oral Office.

Yes, Bubba's legacy just keeps on growing. Really something to be proud of....

[FITZ]

These produce stores, state officials said, sometimes paid just $2.61 an hour

It's very good to go after the illegal employers who are trying to get rich quick from this kind of scam but you know that someone making $2.61 an hour isn't likely to have gotten health insurance benefits or paid taxes so the employer really owes the US taxpayer this money and the local taxpayers for school and hospitalization costs for these employees.

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Geez...close the borders!

[Clemenza]

Most of the owners of these groceries are Korean and treat Mexican like sh-t.

Spitzer is an ambulance chaser. F--k him and the a--hole from Connecticut.

[Clemenza]

Actually, Miami-Dade county was only 52%-48% for Gore, with the 48% coming largely from both foreign and native born Cuban Americans. Palm Beach County, which has few immigants, went for Goreon 66-34.

Your point about not abolishing the electoral college is correct. We CANNOT let ourselved be governed by Los Angeles, New York, Houston, etc.

[sneakypete]

What are we trying to build here? Another Tower of Babel?

The short-term (less than 50 years) goal is NOT to "build anything",but to tear something apart,namely the "togetherness" that has made America united. Once this is accomplished and we are another Israel/Bosnia,the long-term goals will become obvious to everybody as the only "solution" to the problem,a world-wide gooberment ran out of the UN.

[Brownie74]

We CANNOT let ourselved be governed by Los Angeles, New York, Houston, etc.

Stay on top of this Clemenza because there are those that want to abolish the college, and there are others that would love to see a Constitutional convention to revise the Constitution. (No, I am not a Bircher) LOL!!

The short-term (less than 50 years) goal is NOT to "build anything",but to tear something apart,namely the "togetherness" that has made America united.

And sneakypete, the best way to tear something apart is to build mulitculturalism and diversity. Bring in different languages and cultures, some or most with no intentions of assimilating with the existing culture and you have the perfect formula for destruction.

Seal our borders and lets begin the deportation process.

[Arleigh]

When will we have a new civil war?

Between 2005 and 2025. That's the approximate period in which the highest positions of power in the US will be held by Baby Boomers. Baby Boomers (both left and right) are first generation in many to not have experienced the horror of all-out war first-hand. Add to that their self-righteousness and tendency to see things in black/white terms. Also, they are self-absorbed and don't care about future generations - witness how they raise their kids.

Last time we had such a moralistic and self-righteous generation in power, we experienced Civil War I.

BTW I am a Boomer myself.

[Semaphore Heathcliffe]

But 74 percent of foreign-born Raleigh residents arrived in the United States between 1990 and 2000, and 82 percent are not citizens.

New York had the greatest number of foreign-born residents at 2.8 million, 36 percent of the city's population. Of that total, 44 percent entered the country in the past decade, and 55 percent were not citizens.

Nearly 61 percent of Miami residents were born outside the United States, highest percentage in the nation.

These numbers are shocking. There's an unchecked and state-sponsored flood of Democrat voters rolling into this country. Looking at the hard reality of this situation, it's seems so...1700's to care about constitutionality and national sovereignty. Like you might as well be staunch member of the Flat Earth Society. Hello, Globalism; goodbye Constitutional Republic...we hardly knew ye.