The Contributions of New Americans in Florida
Date: August 3, 2016
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With its close proximity to Latin America and the Caribbean, Florida has for decades attracted large numbers of immigrants looking to settle in the United States and grab a piece of the American dream. From the 1960s to the 1990s, Florida was one of seven states that as a group attracted between 60 to 75 percent of all the immigrants arriving in America each year. More recently, the number of foreign-born residents in the state has only continued to grow. Between 2010 and 2014, the immigrant population in Florida increased by almost 310,000 people. That meant that Florida, a state with an already large immigrant population, grew its foreign-born population by 8.4 percent during that period—or at a greater rate than the number of foreign-born residents increased in the country as a whole