纽约新移民，中国人位居第二

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Kirk Semple, 纽约新移民，中国人位居第二. 纽约时报中文网, Dec 20, 2013
cn.nytimes.com/usa/20131219/c19immigration/

, which is translated from

Kirk Semple, Immigration Remakes and Sustains City, a Report Concludes; Arguable ‘the most diverse population of any major city.’  New York Times, Dec 19, 2013.

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"Now the second-largest foreign-born group in the city, Chinese are on the verge of overtaking immigrants from the Dominican Republic for the top spot.

"Now numbering about 3.1 million — a record high — the city’s immigrant population, about 37 percent of the overall population of 8.2 million New Yorkers, is more kaleidoscopic than ever, in large part a result of the passage of 1965 immigration legislation that allowed more people to come from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America. In a city that once had a population of predominantly European origin, there is now no dominant racial, ethnic or nationality group.

"Dominicans have made up the city’s largest immigrant group since 1990 and currently number about 380,200 residents. But Chinese, who have held the No. 2 spot for that period, are close behind, with 350,200. While the Dominican population has grown about 3 percent in the past decade, the Chinese population has grown 34 percent. China was also the single largest source of legally admitted immigrants in New York City from 2002 to 2011, with more than 40 percent of them granted asylum, said the report, which was largely based on Census Bureau data as well other federal and city administrative data.

"Still, the rate of growth among Chinese pales in comparison with the growing number of Mexicans. In the past decade, the Mexican population has surged by 52 percent, the largest spurt of any group among the 10 largest immigrant groups in the city, pushing Mexicans over Guyanese and Jamaicans and moving them into third place. They now number about 186,000. Ecuador, Haiti, India, Russia, Tobago and Trinidad rounded out the top 10 countries of origin.

Note: The Newest New Yorkers; Characteristics of the city's foreign-born population. City Planning Department, City of New York, 2013 edition.