Dominican immigration to Puerto Rico has risen sharply in recent decades, with tens of thousands of arrivals since 1961, but people have moved from the territory of the Dominican Republic to its eastern neighbor, Puerto Rico, and vice versa since the European colonization of the Americas. Immigrants have come from the various segments of Dominican society, with quite varying levels of contribution at different times. Although the end goal of most of the immigrants is the United States, tens of thousands have remained in Puerto Rico. The recent immigration is further noted for its large undocumented or illegal component, the tragic outcomes of many of these attempts, and the consequent publicity.
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“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.”
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