Statistics of Immigrants in Massachusetts

Three decades worth of immigration statistic for MA. FAIR: Massachusetts: Census Bureau Data and Projection. (via Boston condos for sale - Boston real estate.)
Rank Country 1980
1 Canada 78,211
2 Portugal 75,077
3 Italy 55,461
4 U.K. 30,610
5 Ireland 23,155
6 Greece 17,801
7 Poland 16,923
8 Sov.Un. 16,170
9 Germany 15,158
10 China 9,868
All Others 162,548
Total 500,982

Rank Country 1990
1 Portugal 70,814
2 Canada 52,438
3 Italy 38,288
4 U.K. 26,807
5 China 20,367
6 Ireland 20,224
7 Dom.Rep. 19,514
8 Haiti 18,804
9 Sov.Un. 15,350
10 Germany 14,229
All Other 276,898
Total 573,733

Rank Country 2000
1 Portugal 66,627
2 Dom.Rep. 46,744
3 Canada 40,247
4 China * 39,255
5 Brazil 36,669
6 Haiti 33,862
7 Vietnam 30,457
8 Italy 28,319
9 India 28,086
10 U.K. 25,403
All Others 397,314
Total 772,983

Comments. I knew that there are a lot of immigrants here from Portugal but I had no idea that they dominated immigration into this sate for three decades. This means that they live mostly outside of Boston. I don't think I met one, ever, amazing. Even in the 80s a surprisingly high number from Italy. A surprisingly low number from Sov. Un. (the Jewish immigration) in the 80s and 90s, just a little over 30 thousands, a big surprise compared to how much noise they make and how ubiquitous they are. In reality they are just above Germans (80s). I am yet to meet a single German immigrant in MA. Amazing! 36,669 Brazilians in the last decade? This means only one thing, that there are a lot of them here illegally, because they are everywhere (this probably also applies to Chinese). OK there are a lot of high tech Indians who came to MA in the last decade, but almost the same number from UK??? Still the total number is very significant, over 1.8M during the three decades in this small state.