ABSTRACT
Immigration in general, and Latino immigration specifically, does not result in an even distribution of immigrants across the country. Instead, immigrants tend to concentrate in certain regions of the country. With tum-of-the-century immigrants, these areas of concentration included port cities in the Northeast, Chicago, and San Francisco. Today, the ports of entry include some U.S. cities near the U.S.-Mexico border, such as Los Angeles and Houston, and cities with major international air links to other countries such as Miami, New York, San Francisco, and, again, Los Angeles. Each of these cities and the states of California, Florida, New York, and Texas have received large numbers of Latino and non-Latino immigrants over the past twenty years.
