Immigration
At the 2009 American Community Survey, 31.9% of Bronx's population was foreign born and another 8.5% was born in Puerto Rico, U.S. Island areas, or born abroad to American parent(s).
| Bronx residents born abroad or overseas, 1930 and 2000 | |||||
| 1930 United States Census | 2000 United States Census | ||||
| Total population of the Bronx | 1,265,258 | Total population of the Bronx | 1,332,650 | ||
| All born abroad or overseas ‡ | 524,410 | 39.4% | |||
| Puerto Rico | 126,649 | 9.5% | |||
| Foreign-born Whites | 477,342 | 37.7% | All foreign-born | 385,827 | 29.0% |
| White persons born in Russia | 135,210 | 10.7% | Dominican Republic | 124,032 | 9.3% |
| White persons born in Italy | 67,732 | 5.4% | Jamaica | 51,120 | 3.8% |
| White persons born in Poland | 55,969 | 4.4% | Mexico | 20,962 | 1.6% |
| White persons born in Germany | 43,349 | 3.4% | Guyana | 14,868 | 1.1% |
| White persons born in the Irish Free State † | 34,538 | 2.7% | Ecuador | 14,800 | 1.1% |
| Other foreign birthplaces of Whites | 140,544 | 11.1% | Other foreign birthplaces | 160,045 | 12.0% |
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Famous quotes containing the word immigration:
“I was interested to see how a pioneer lived on this side of the country. His life is in some respects more adventurous than that of his brother in the West; for he contends with winter as well as the wilderness, and there is a greater interval of time at least between him and the army which is to follow. Here immigration is a tide which may ebb when it has swept away the pines; there it is not a tide, but an inundation, and roads and other improvements come steadily rushing after.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)
“The admission of Oriental immigrants who cannot be amalgamated with our people has been made the subject either of prohibitory clauses in our treaties and statutes or of strict administrative regulations secured by diplomatic negotiations. I sincerely hope that we may continue to minimize the evils likely to arise from such immigration without unnecessary friction and by mutual concessions between self-respecting governments.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)