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Katherine Fennelly provides statistics on the rising number of immigrants in Minnesota.

However, Minnesota's immigrant population from Africa, Southeast Asia, the former Soviet states and elsewhere has expanded rapidly. For example, from 2000 to 2008, Minnesota's immigrant population grew by 48 percent, compared with a 22 percent increase nationwide, according to a recent report, "The Economic Impact of Immigrants in Minnesota, 2010," by Katherine Fennelly and Anne Huart, scholars at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.

Minnesota Public Radio
February 23, 2012

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