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Originally Posted by Capsicum
True that the US has caps per country to make sure that the immigrants are evenly spread between countries of origin.
However, the actual stats are that the immigration is not really much more spread out between source countries than for Canada. Immigration from the largest source, Mexico, outnumbers the next several countries on the list. In Canada, while the largest three sources are all Asian (Philippines, India, China, in various order that have switched around in the last decade or so) for the past few years (plus the Syrians within the last two years), no immigrant source country makes up more than 10%.
Plus, the US has a larger share of family reunification immigrants than Canada, so if anything that would tend to concentrate immigrants among source countries (since you get families sponsoring those from the same country).
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It's borders Mexico so of course it's going to be a major source of immigration.
The L.A. area has about 2 million Asians as there are
people in Greater Vancouver. But then there's like 6 million Hispanics (the vast majority Mexican American) so the percentage isn't that high.
In other words, it doesn't have a problem attracting Asian immigrants, it just has a major immigrant source Canada doesn't have.