How Houston's Asian community has exploded in growth since 1869
Houston has one of the top 10 largest Asian American populations in the U.S., but it wasn’t always that way.
After the Exclusion Act, Seito Saibara, center, was one of many Japanese immigrants who came to the U.S. for jobs. In 1903, the Houston Chamber of Commerce invited Saibara to show farmers how to cultivate a heartier grain of rice. The Webster farming community became one of Texas’ most prominent Japanese rice farm colonies.
After over four decades of limiting Asian immigration, the U.S. did away with nationality-based quotas via the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. The law also opened new opportunities for relatives of U.S. residents and highly skilled immigrants to enter the country. Mohammad Faruque’s family immigrated to the U.S. in 1977 when Faruque was a year old. His father, a geologist, moved the family from New York to Houston to work in the oil and gas industry.
Kazi Salman Jalali and his family immigrated to the U.S. from Pakistan in 1973 and moved his family to Houston three years later. He now has five grown children and 20 grandchildren.
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