Reply #63: I'm wondering if many of the DU'ers who support unrestricted immigration [View All]

live in parts of the country that feel most of immigration's effects. Here in Seattle, for instance, we're approaching one in five residents being foreign born. Here are the statistics as of the 2000 census.

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:N1qpwbtilqAJ:www.ci.seattle.wa.us/DCLU/demographics/snapshots/immigrants_july2003.pdf+Seattle+percent+population+immigrants&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=5

"An unprecedented 95,000 people living in Seattle in 2000—nearly 17
percent of the population—were born abroad. This figure is 40 percent
higher than a decade earlier and more than four times higher than the
city’s overall growth during the 1990s,which was nine percent.
Despite higher rates of growth during the 1990s among people
from Africa (320 percent), the Americas (74 percent), and Oceania (63
percent),Asia still remains the birthplace of more than half the city’s
foreign-born (see graph below). The number of Seattle residents from
Asia increased only 34 percent during the 1990s.
The top sending countries of Seattle’sforeign-born population are
shown in the table at right. Together these 14 countries account for
seven of every ten foreign-born people in Seattle.

Number
Philippines
12,361
Vietnam
11,305
China
11,239
Mexico
7,902
Korea
4,432
Japan
3,250
Ethiopia
2,777
Germany
2,567
United Kingdom
2,565
Cambodia
1,968
Laos
1,885
India
1,416
Thailand
1,411
Russia
1,199
TOTAL of above countries 65,977
TOTAL from all countries 94,952
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000,