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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]
In 2004, following several years of pressure from a coalition of U.S. conservatives and liberal human rights activists, [5] the U.S. government reversed a policy of denying immigration to Hmong who had fled Laos in the 1990s for refugee camps in Thailand. In a major victory for the refugees, the US government recognized some 15,000 Hmong as ...
The U.S. Census Bureau's 2019 American Community Survey estimates Wisconsin's Hmong population at more than 58,000.
The 2010 U.S. Census showed the number of Hmong citizens to be around 4,100 people, putting it fourth in Wisconsin for Hmong populations. [35] Per the 2022 American Community Survey five-year estimates, the Hmong American population was 5,002, [36] the largest Hmong community in Wisconsin after Milwaukee. They are the 2nd largest ethnic group ...
Biden carried the county by 11 points over Trump in 2020, when the Democrat won Wisconsin and the election. Trump lost the county by 7 points in 2016, but won Wisconsin that year. Vance's campaign said his visit Tuesday will focus on the effect of immigration even on non-border states.
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 ...
Moderator Panhia Thao of 9to5 Wisconsin asked questions drawn from residents who rely on the resource groups in order to put the candidates' focus on Green Bay's Black, Hispanic, Asian, Native ...
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 ...