Table 2.
Country of origin by type of prior US experience
| Country of origin | Type of prior US experience |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All respondents | New arrival | Illegal border crosser | Visa abuser | Non-resident visitor | Non-resident worker | Student/exchange | Refugee/asylee | |||||||||
| Largest | Mex. | 15.0 | Phil. | 11.9 | Mex. | 41.2 | Mex. | 13.0 | Mex. | 15.8 | Can. | 14.9 | China | 23.0 | USSR | 41.9 |
| Second largest | USSR | 8.1 | India | 8.9 | El Sal. | 5.9 | Viet. | 7.6 | Jam. | 5.7 | Phil. | 13.8 | Japan | 5.4 | Viet. | 29.6 |
| Third largest | China | 6.0 | Mex. | 6.9 | Peru | 4.6 | China | 7.5 | USSR | 5.3 | USSR | 10.7 | Korea | 5.1 | Cuba | 8.8 |
| Fourth largest | Phil. | 6.0 | China | 6.7 | Guat. | 4.4 | Phil. | 5.7 | China | 4.6 | Jam. | 6.1 | India | 4.8 | Yugo. | 7.7 |
| Fifth largest | Viet. | 5.2 | USSR | 5.1 | Ecuad. | 4.4 | Colom. | 5.4 | Italy | 3.9 | China | 4.6 | Mex./Tai. | 4.2 | Iraq/Sudan | 2.2 |
| Top 5 total | 40.3 | 39.5 | 60.5 | 39.2 | 35.3 | 50.1 | 46.7 | 92.4 | ||||||||