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After the Immigration and Nationality act of 1965 was enacted, many Palestinians started immigrating again into the United States. Most Palestinians that immigrated to the United States in this period were more educated than the Palestinians that arrived before 1965, due to the preferential status for educated immigrants, and a "brain drain" of ...
Many Palestinians have settled in the United States, particularly in the Chicago area. [206] [207] In total, an estimated 600,000 Palestinians are thought to reside in the Americas. Palestinian emigration to South America began for economic reasons that pre-dated the Arab-Israeli conflict, but continued to grow thereafter. [208]
The actual number of Palestinians who immigrated to the US during this time is not known because often the United States was not their first destination. Perhaps as many as a quarter of the nearly 800,000 Arabs that period were of Palestinian descent.
This is a list of notable Palestinian Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.. The list is ordered by category of human endeavour.
The directive signed by President Joe Biden effectively allows Palestinian immigrants who would otherwise have to leave the United States to stay without th Palestinians living in US will be ...
Palestinian emigrants to the United States (1 C, 55 P) J. American people of Palestinian-Jewish descent (20 P) P. American politicians of Palestinian descent (15 P) W.
This list includes North Africans in the United States who identify as Arabs as well as Middle Eastern Americans who are not Arabs. The first Arab American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives was George A. Kasem in 1959, and the first Arab-American U.S. senator was James Abourezk in 1973.
Palestinian rights group Addameer told The Independent that since then they have documented more than 3,100 cases of arrest of Palestinians including 100 women and 40 journalists.