From KPCC:
Two-thirds of San Gabriel Valley's Asian-Americans are immigrants
Leslie Berestein Rojas | February 21, 2018
Nearly 525,000 Asian-Americans call the San Gabriel Valley home, and about 67 percent of them are foreign-born, according to the report released Wednesday by Asian Americans Advancing Justice, a civil rights organization, using mostly census data.
The over half a million Asian-Americans and 7,000 Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders living in the valley outnumber those living in 42 states, the numbers show.
The report also concludes that as many as 58,000 of these immigrants could be living here illegally, based on the portion of unauthorized Asian immigrants estimated in the entire country.
"Asian Americans are the most immigrant of any major racial group, be it in the San Gabriel Valley, be it in the state of California, be it nationally," said Dan Ichinose, who directs demographic research for AAAJ. "These data consistently show that immigration policy isn't just something that affects Latinos. It is something that affects Asian-American communities in a really significant way."
Many in this demographic group arrived under the current family-based immigration system, Ichinose said. The system has been under debate in Congress as the Trump administration pushes for limits on legal immigration and changes favoring those with job skills.
Asian-Americans in the San Gabriel Valley are still outnumbered by Latinos, the region's largest ethnic group. But only about a third of the valley's Latino population is foreign-born.
Asian-Americans are by far the region's fastest-growing group. While the valley's overall population grew just 2 percent between 2000 and 2010, its Asian-American population grew by 22 percent, according to the report.
Still, that demographic increased at a faster rate in communities like Pasadena and Temple City, which saw their Asian-American population rise by 49 and 52 percent, respectively, during the same period.
Among Asians, Chinese remain the largest group, followed by Filipinos and Vietnamese. But among the fastest-growing Asian and Pacific Islander groups in the valley are Bangladeshis, Fijians and Hmong.
Asian-Americans own more businesses — almost 82,000 — in the San Gabriel Valley than any other ethnic group, including whites. But this doesn't mean that the region's Asian-American and Pacific Islander groups are universally successful.
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