In the 1990s, a small part of my family immigrated to the United States from Haiti. At the time, there were many difficulties in finding a job in Haiti, so they were forced to emigrate to seek a better life. All my cousins were born in the United States, and according to their parents, life is better here than it was in their country. When they arrived here, they lived in Brooklyn specifically in Church Avenue. Today many Haitian immigrants leave here. According to the last Census Bureau Data in 2008, there are 546, 000 Haitian immigrants in the United States. Of the 546,000 foreign-born Haitians, 48% percent are naturalized U.S citizens.The top states of Haitian immigrant settlement are: Florida (251,963)
New York (135,836)
New Jersey (43,316)
Massachusetts (36,779)
Georgia (13,287)
Maryland (11,266)
When you told me about your families story in class, the first thing I thought was that it much more to every story than the textbooks print. I love how your family stuck together no matter what and stayed in one place since being here. Moving around makes things much more complicated than most people know, so that shows a lot.