{"id":26756,"date":"2010-07-20T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/dominicans-lead-in-green-cards\/"},"modified":"2010-07-20T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T01:43:56","slug":"dominicans-lead-in-green-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2010\/07\/20\/dominicans-lead-in-green-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominicans lead in green cards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of the 1.1 million people who got green cards to the US in 2009, the Dominican Republic was the fifth country of birth of the new immigrants. Mexico leads with 15% of immigrants, followed by China, the Philippines, India and the DR, each of which accounted for 4-6% of the new immigrants, according to Homeland Security statistics. <\/p>\n

Of the total, 37% come from Asia and 31% from North America. <\/p>\n

Most of the new immigrants settled in California (20%), New York (13%), Florida (11%), Texas (8%) and New Jersey (5%). <\/p>\n

Interestingly, most of the new immigrants are women (54.6%), 58% are married. The new median age of immigrants is 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of the 1.1 million people who got green cards to the US in 2009, the Dominican Republic was the fifth country of birth of the new immigrants. Mexico leads with 15% of immigrants, followed by China, the Philippines, India and the DR, each of which accounted for 4-6% of the new immigrants, according to Homeland … <\/p>\n

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