Senators Daniel Inouye and the late Senator Spark. or Sparky. Matsunaga. Some important dates include the first 10 days of May. which coincide with two important anniversaries. the arrival of Japanese American immigrants on May 7. 1843 to California. settling in El Dorado County. and the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10. 1869. by the Chinese laborers. The first APIA settlement in this country dates to 1763 when Filipinos escaped imprisonment aboard Spanish galleons and established a community near New Orleans. Today. the APIA community is one of the fastestgrowing populations in the country. with over 13 million APIAs living in the U.S. and representing 4.5 percent of the total U.S. population.
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