
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, December 14, 1993                   TAG: 9312140156
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

NUMBER OF IMMIGRANTS SOARS, INS REPORTS

Two years after Congress liberalized the nation's immigration laws, the United States admitted 810,635 legal immigrants in 1992, representing one of the largest one-year increases since the turn of the century, according to a report the Immigration and Naturalization Service released Monday.

The leading sending countries were Mexico, with 91,332 immigrants; Vietnam, 77,728; the Philippines, 59,179; and the republics of the former Soviet Union, 43,590. Mexico and Vietnam also had the largest percent in annual increases - 73 percent and 40 percent, respectively.

- Los Angeles Times

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