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Article: A SURGE TO THE VALLEY FOREIGN-BORN POPULATION JUMPED BY 32.3% IN 1990S.(News)(Statistical Data Included)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- August 28, 2002
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Byline: Beth Barrett Staff Writer
The San Fernando Valley's foreign-born population soared in the 1990s by 32.3 percent, dramatically changing the community's political and social makeup, according to new U.S. Census figures released Tuesday. The immigrant population jumped from 397,369 to 525,988 in the Valley, putting its proportion of foreign-born residents virtually on a par with that in the rest of city, which had only a 5.2 percent increase in the decade. Overall, the Valley's population is 38.8 percent foreign-born, and in the rest of the city, it's 42.2 percent foreign-born.
Demographers and political leaders see the surge in the immigrant ...