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In 1990 the 16,373 Hmong persons in Wisconsin made up 0.33% of the state's population. From 1990 to 2000, the Hmong population in Wisconsin increased by 106%, as immigration continued from Hmong refugee camps in Thailand. The state's White- American population increased in that time by 4.8%. [21]
This is a list of detention facilities holding illegal immigrants in the United States.The United States maintains the largest illegal immigrant detention camp infrastructure in the world, which by the end of the fiscal year 2007 included 961 sites either directly owned by or contracted with the federal government, according to the Freedom of Information Act Office of the U.S. Immigration and ...
Immigration already is responsible for the modest 19,000-resident growth metro Milwaukee did see from 2010 to 2019, the Lubar report said. ... and the Hmong had adjusted well to life in Wisconsin:
The first Hmong elected to a political office in the state was Tony Vang, who became a Fresno Unified School District board member after a 2002 election. The Fresno Hmong had advocated for California bill AB78 which established a requirement for Southeast Asian history education in the California school system; this bill passed in 2003. [10]
Funding is now in place for a new Hmong American immersion school set to open in the Appleton Area School District in fall 2025. "This 4K-5th grade charter school will focus on academic excellence ...
Paul, Minnesota, has the largest Hmong population per capita in the United States (10.0%; 28,591 Hmong Americans), followed by Wausau in Wisconsin (3,569; 9.1% of its population). The Hmong communities of Minnesota and Wisconsin are geographically and culturally interlinked, with sizeable Hmong communities present in most of the mid-size cities ...
Green Bay School Board candidates, from left, Alex Mineau, Kou Lee and Andrew Becker at a candidates forum held Thursday, March 21, 2024, in the Brown County Central Library in Green Bay.
A Hmong theologian, Rev. Dr. Paul Joseph T. Khamdy Yang has proposed the use of the term "HMong" in reference to the Hmong and the Mong communities by capitalizing the H and the M. The ethnologist Jacques Lemoine has also begun to use the term (H)mong in reference to the entirety of the Hmong and Mong communities.