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May 15, 2024 · This is what draws Chinese migrants toward enclaves like Flushing and Sunset Park, where immigrant networks, legal service centers, job markets and nonprofits form a vital support system. For ...
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Mar 6, 2024 · Today, that informal but well-developed Chinese support system in New York has become a “first resort” for recent migrants, said State Senator John C. Liu, whose district includes Flushing.
May 21, 2024 · In fiscal year 2021, Border Patrol encountered 330 mainland Chinese migrants between official ports of entry on the U.S. side of the border. In 2023, that number soared to 24,050. This year...
Mar 6, 2024 · The influx of Chinese migrants into the city has been the largest in more than a decade, and marks a return to the sizable immigration of Chinese people beginning in the 1980s that revived struggling neighborhoods like Chinatown, and cemented newer ethnic strongholds in Flushing, Queens, and Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
Flushing is a neighborhood in the north-central portion of the New York City borough of Queens. The neighborhood is the fourth-largest central business district in New York City.
Jan 24, 2024 · According to Yanhai Wan, a community activist helping migrants in Flushing and the founder of WYH Consulting LLC, Chinese asylum seekers are experiencing fierce competition for employment, pushing them into low-paid jobs with wages as minimal as about $10 per hour.
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New York shares a 445 mile (716 kilometres), border with the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. It has 4 of the most heavily traveled border crossings between the countries, including Buffalo-Niagara Falls, Champlain-Rouses Pt, Massena and Thousand Islands Bridge.
