Fun facts about Miami - enjoy!

(Found in This Land is Our Land: Immigrants and Power in Miami by Alex Stepick, et al.)

• Miami has the highest proportion of foreign-born residents of any major metropolitan area in the United States, proportionally 50% more than either Los Angeles or New York.
• Over 70% of Miami's population are either first-generation (48.6%) or second-generation (22.9%) immigrants.
• In the wake of every crisis in Latin America, the Miami Latino population grows.
• While Miami has only 5% of the total US Latino population, it has close to half of the 40 largest Latino owned industrial and commercial firms in the country.
• Nearly 50% of US exports to the Caribbean and Central America and over 30% of US exports to South America pass through Miami.
• Miami's airport is the top US airport for international freight, with more nonstop cargo flights to Latin Ameirca and the Caribbean than Orlando, Houston, New Orleans, Atlanta, Tampa and New York's Kennedy Airport combined.
• The airport also has more airlines than any other airport in the Western Hemisphere,a nd it is frequently easier to get from one Latino American country to another by going through Miami than by flying direct.