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Arab immigration to the United States began before the United States achieved independence in 1776. Since the first major wave of Arab immigration in the late 19th century, the majority of Arab immigrants have settled in or near large cities. Roughly 94 percent of all Arab immigrants live in metropolitan areas, [1][2] While most Arabic-speaking ...
In 2010 the four Metro Detroit counties had at least 200,000 people of Middle Eastern origin. Bobby Ghosh of TIME said that some estimates gave much larger numbers. [4] From 1990 to 2000 the percentage of people speaking Arabic in the home increased by 106% in Wayne County, 99.5% in Macomb County, and 41% in Oakland County. [5]
Downey, California – most affluent Mexican-American community. [337] East Los Angeles, California – historic urban Mexican-American enclave (see Chicano). [338] Guymon, Oklahoma – in the Oklahoma Panhandle. [335] Cicero, Illinois and Little Village, Chicago; Chicagoland has one of largest Mexican populations.
The United States is the second largest home of Druze communities outside the Middle East after Venezuela (60,000). [7] According to some estimates there are about 30,000 [68] to 50,000 [7] Druzes in the United States, with the largest concentration in Southern California. [68] Most Druze immigrated to the U.S. from Lebanon and Syria. [68]
As of 2015, the number of Iraqi Americans is around 145,279, according to the United States Census Bureau. [ 2 ] According to the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, 49,006 Iraqi foreign born immigrated to the United States between 1989 and 2001 and 25,710 Iraqi-born immigrants naturalized between 1991 and 2001.
U.S. President Harry Truman signing into law the Luce–Celler Act in 1946 [ 74 ] In 1945, the War Brides Act allowed foreign-born wives of U.S. citizens who had served in the U.S. Armed Forces to immigrate to the United States. In 1946, the War Brides Act was extended to include the fiancés of American soldiers.
In the mid 1960s, due to U.S. immigration laws and the Six-Day War of 1967 in Jordan, the number of Jordanians who emigrated to the United States exceeded the 11,000 people. At this time, the majority chose to settle in Western cities and in the southwest of the country, except the wealthy Jordanians who felt more comfortable in the suburbs of ...
Annually, on average, 2,000 people from Armenia migrated to the US since 1994, not including ethnic Armenians from Middle Eastern countries. [31] According to the 2000 US Census, there were 65,280 Armenian-born people in the United States. [49] Almost 90% had moved in the previous two decades (57,960) [50] and lived in California (57,482). [51]