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The 1917 Jones–Shafroth Act made all Puerto Ricans US citizens, freeing them from immigration barriers. The massive migration of Puerto Ricans to the mainland United States was largest in the early and late 20th century, [35] prior to its resurgence in the early 21st century.
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 ...
Chart reflecting Puerto Rican migration in the United States circa 1980s. However, starting in 2006 and extending into the early 2010s, there was a resurgence in migration from Puerto Rico to New York City [65] and New Jersey, with an apparently multifactorial allure to Puerto Ricans, primarily for economic and cultural considerations.
During Trump’s first term, people from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador flocked to the U.S. border due to instability in their home countries. That started to change around 2019. Throughout ...
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.
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 ...
US officials say the increase in migrants arriving at the border is a response to rumors and "disinformation" spread by smugglers and bigger foes.
The Western United States is home to 465,000 Puerto Ricans, comprising 8% of the Puerto Rican population nationwide. Most Puerto Ricans in the western US live in California, smaller numbers live in areas like Las Vegas, Nevada and Phoenix, Arizona, as well as the Honolulu metropolitan area in Hawaii.