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  2. Stateside Puerto Ricans - Wikipedia

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    Also, unlike the initial pattern of migration several decades ago, this second significant Puerto Rican migration into New York and surrounding states is being driven by movement not only into New York City proper, but also into the city's surrounding suburban areas, including areas outside New York State, especially Northern New Jersey, such ...

  3. List of Stateside Puerto Rican communities - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of communities known for possessing a large number of Stateside Puerto Ricans.Over 38 percent of Stateside Puerto Ricans live in just two states, namely Florida and New York, although large numbers can also be found in the states of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.

  4. Caribbean immigration to New York City - Wikipedia

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    The 2005 National Puerto Rican Parade. New York City has the largest Puerto Rican population outside of Puerto Rico. Puerto Ricans, due to the forced change of the citizenship status of the island's residents, can technically be said to have come to the City first as immigrants and subsequently as migrants. The first group of Puerto Ricans ...

  5. Puerto Ricans in New York City - Wikipedia

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    By 1953, Puerto Rican migration to New York reached its peak when 75,000 people left the island. [11] Ricky Martin at the annual Puerto Rican parade in New York City. Operation Bootstrap ("Operación Manos a la Obra") is the name given to the ambitious projects which industrialized Puerto Rico in the mid-20th century engineered by Teodoro ...

  6. Puerto Rican immigration to Hawaii - Wikipedia

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    Puerto Rican migration to Hawaii began when Puerto Rico's sugar industry was devastated by two hurricanes in 1899. The devastation caused a worldwide shortage in sugar and a huge demand for the product from Hawaii. Consequently, Hawaiian sugarcane plantation owners began to recruit the jobless, but experienced, laborers from Puerto Rico. In ...

  7. Why did Puerto Rico become part of the US? And why is ... - AOL

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    Puerto Rico is an unincorporated U.S. territory with a population of about 3.2 million people. It is officially known both as the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and as the Estado Libre Asociado de ...

  8. Puerto Ricans in Holyoke, Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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    From a combination of farming programs instituted by the US Department of Labor after World War II, and the housing and mills that characterized Holyoke prior to deindustrialization, Puerto Ricans began settling in the city in the mid-1950s, with many arriving during the wave of Puerto Rican migration to the Northeastern United States in the 1980s.

  9. Caravan of 3,000 migrants rushes for US border on Election ...

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    A new caravan with 3,000 migrants is heading north to the US on Election Day in what Border Patrol officials are describing as a mad dash to cross the border while President Biden is still in office.