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• LOS ANGELES COUNTY HAS THE LARGEST CONCENTRATION OF FILIPINOS IN THE WORLD OUTSIDE THE PHILIPPINES (1996), WITH 223, 276 FILIPINOS (1990 CENSUS), MAKING THE SECOND LARGEST ASIAN GROUP AFTER THE CHINESE.
  
  
• FILIPINOS CONSTITUTE 24 % OF THE ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER POPULATION,. THE LARGEST AND FASTEST-GROWING ASIAN ETHNIC GROUP IN CALIFORNIA (UNITED WAY, 1995).
  
  
• EARLIEST RECORD OF FILIPINOS (7 TOTAL) ARRIVED IN THE US IN 1587 ON ABOARD "NUESTRA SENORA de ESPERANZA" WHICH WAS BUILT IN MANILA DURING THE SPANISH ERA. THEY SETTLED ALONG THE SHORES OF LOUISIANA.
  
  
• ARRIVAL OF 15 FILIPINO LABORERS IN 1906 MARKED THE BEGINNING OF FILIPINO IMMIGRATION IN THE U.S. AND HAWAII.
  
  
• WAR BRIDE ACT 1945, ALLOWED US-BASED FILIPINO VETERANS TO BRING WIVES AND CHILDREN TO THE U.S.