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DATE: FRIDAY, March 2, 1990                   TAG: 9003023183
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A6   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

ASIAN IMMIGRATION UP 70 PERCENT IN 1980S

A sustained wave of Asian immigration in the past decade fueled a 70 percent increase in the Asian population of the United States from 1980 to 1988, said a report made public Thursday by the Census Bureau.

The bureau reported that the Asian population grew nearly seven times as fast as the general population and three times as fast as the black population.

It was at about 6.5 million on July 1, 1988, up from 3.8 million eight years earlier, the report said.

The increase changed the political and social landscape of California, where more than one-third of those from Asia and the Pacific islands settled.

It is largely because of the influx from the Philippines, China, South Korea and India, said officials of the bureau and of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Michael Hoefer, an INS official, said most immigrants in the 1980s were admitted under "family reunification" priorities. Preference was given to applicants with relatives in the United States.

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