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Immigrants from the Dominican republic discover New York

The Dominican Republic is a small island that is 18,816 square miles, located off the coast of Florida. The island is shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti. The island has a subtropical climate, mountains, rolling hills, and fertile river valleys. Between the early 80’s and 90’s many Dominicans come to The United States for more opportunities and a better life, but they soon learned that they would face many of the same cultural, racial and ethnic problems. It was nearly impossible for them to get a skilled job opportunity due to poor education and being discriminated against. New York City’s fastest growing immigrant groups are Dominicans. In 1980 the Dominican population in NYC was 125,380, in 1990 it was 332,713, today it is estimated that there are well over 600,000. The only problem with this through the years of their migration to America is that their capital as a whole decreases. The source of these severe economic problems according to Internet site, Latino Link, is...

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