Foreign Born US Residents Increased 5% Last Year
by Pola Rosen, Ed.D.

The US Census Bureau released a report recently which sited a 5% increase in the US resident foreign-born population from 2001 to 2002 to a total of 33 million people, equal to the total population of Canada. “These data provide a moving picture of one of the fastest growing population segments in the United States,” Census Bureau Di-rector Louis Kinca-nnon said in a statement.

A New York case in point is Lin Tsui Wong who came here from China by herself in 1977 to join her husband. She then had two children and brought her six sisters and brothers and parents to New York. Her son James, is a student at a chiropractic school; daughter Olivia graduated from college and works for IBM.

Lin became a citizen in 1982 and lives in Flushing, New York along with the 55 members of her family pictured here. An additional ten family members couldn’t attend the reunion. Congratulations to Lin for adding so many productive new citizens to our great city.#