{"id":128339,"date":"2015-10-17T18:02:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T00:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/17\/where-do-immigrants-to-the-us-come-from.html"},"modified":"2015-11-10T16:22:38","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T23:22:38","slug":"where-do-immigrants-to-the-us-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/17\/where-do-immigrants-to-the-us-come-from.html","title":{"rendered":"Where do immigrants to the US come from?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is kind of fascinating, watching it state by state over time, seeing the waves from China and Ireland, Italy, and Germany (and, of course, Mexico).<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s also a bit amusing &#8212; who would have thought that there were so many immigrants from the Philippines to <i>Alaska<\/i> in recent years? Norway and Canada, sure, but the Philippines?<\/p>\n<p>Some of that is small numbers. I would imagine foreign immigration to Alaska is fairly small; a few families (and the friends they beckoned) could tip those numbers pretty quickly. <\/p>\n<p>The Russians \/ former USSR folk in Colorado in the mid-20th Century is another one I wouldn&#39;t have expected.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, fun stuff.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Pew Research Center<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>From Germany to Mexico: How America&rsquo;s source of immigrants has changed over a century <a href=\"http:\/\/pewrsr.ch\/1Lgegfm\">http:\/\/pewrsr.ch\/1Lgegfm<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/103750685293771924101\/albums\/6206615199647108785\/6206615198112152962'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-9Aryj67moB0\/ViJTo30D_YI\/AAAAAAAAIbo\/S5DCIKRY5RQ\/1b3843bc-fc83-42a8-b20b-d39362351440?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/PiY6ZvG91SL'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is kind of fascinating, watching it state by state over time, seeing the waves from China and Ireland, Italy, and Germany (and, of course, Mexico). It&#39;s also a bit amusing &#8212; who would have thought that there were so many immigrants from the Philippines to Alaska in recent years? Norway and Canada, sure, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/17\/where-do-immigrants-to-the-us-come-from.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Where do immigrants to the US come from?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,533,10,108,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-demographics","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-history","category-nationalism-exceptionalism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1b3843bc-fc83-42a8-b20b-d39362351440imgmax=660.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137681,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/16\/how-are-illegal-immigrants-coming-to-this-country.html","url_meta":{"origin":128339,"position":0},"title":"How are illegal immigrants coming to this country?","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 16-Jan-19 9:52pm","format":false,"excerpt":"While Donald is so obsessed about his Beautiful Wall, the majority of illegal immigration in the US comes through ports of entry, including airports, through people overstaying their visa.Sure, it's not quite as visual or viscerally disturbing to some folk as random families scrambling through the sagebrush or \"caravans\" of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":134028,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/03\/and-then-we-go-after-the-legal-immigrants.html","url_meta":{"origin":128339,"position":1},"title":"And then we go after the LEGAL immigrants","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 3-Aug-17 7:44am","format":false,"excerpt":"Because when your whole campaign is based on Terror of the Other, then even people who come here legally are fodder for stereotypes, fear-mongering, and discrimination.Legal immigration policy is one of those things that isn't quite as clear-cut as to when it's bad and when it's good. Aside from some\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":36624,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/30\/pick-your-political-advice-carefully.html","url_meta":{"origin":128339,"position":2},"title":"Pick your political advice carefully","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 30-May-13 9:48am","format":false,"excerpt":"While the temptation is to wholeheartedly encourage the GOP to pursue \u00a0Phyllis Schlafly's advice to the hilt, which would surely drive them into obscurity if not extinction, the fact is I want a vibrant, thriving, more inclusive Republican party, in opposition to the Dems and encouraging the latter to be\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":132875,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/17\/immigration-reduces-crime.html","url_meta":{"origin":128339,"position":3},"title":"Immigration reduces crime","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 17-Feb-17 4:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeah, I know, it's all \"academic\" and \"scientific\" and \"pointy-headed intellectuals\" stuff, when we know that the Real Truth comes from Sean Spicer and Fox News, that we are all doomed, DOOMED, due to blood-thirsty immigrants wanting to steal, marry, kill, and eat our women-folk. 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