Montgomery County's Immigrants: More Educated, Legal
An immigration story close to home.
By SOPHIE PETIT Capital News Service Thu Nguyem immigrated to Florida from Vietnam with her family nearly 30 years ago. Every month, her family would drive three and a half hours to Tampa to stock up on Vietnamese food at the one Asian market they knew of in the state. Nguyem, 32, now lives in Montgomery County within walking distance of three Asian markets and is part of an expanding Asian population in Maryland. With a smaller fraction of Hispanic immigrants and a larger portion of Asian immigrants, Maryland offers a different picture of immigrant life, one in which immigrants are more educated, more prosperous and more likely to be documented, diverging from some stereotypes around the country. Nationally, more than half of all …
Corbin Dallas Multipass
8:18 am on Monday, November 12, 2012
Dude that is nationally, not just in MoCo, so unless your house is in Canada you're not helping yourself. And also, because it seems people don't understand what recent immigrant trends are: http://www.pewhispanic.org/2012/04/23/net-migration-from-mexico-falls-to-zero-and-perhaps-less/ more ›