In Canada 14% (42 of 307) of members of Parliament are immigrants. Does the US have any

[pampango]

members of congress who are immigrants?

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/why-embracing-immigrants-works-for-conservatives/article2195142/?from=sec368

In many countries, conservative political parties are seen as hostile to immigrants. Right-of-centre parties in the United States and Europe tend to be more nationalistic than their left-leaning counterparts, and this pride in country can sometimes manifest itself in xenophobia.

Of the 307 MPs who took their seats in Parliament last month, 42 were born outside Canada.

The 2006 census found 19 per cent of the Canadian population was made up of immigrants. (The figure is 11% in the US.) For Parliament to mirror the population, we would need 59 foreign-born MPs. Although Canada doesn’t reach that standard of parity with society, we come closer than any of our usual comparator countries (including the U.S., U.K. and Australia).

Some might ask whether our immigrant MPs really reflect the diversity of Canadian society, or whether they’re mainly acculturated Brits and Americans. No, our foreign-born MPs are genuinely diverse: We have representation from every continent: 15 from Europe, 11 each from Asia and the Americas (including the Caribbean), and five from Africa.

[elleng]

1. We DID, at least one, Tom Lantos:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/11/AR2008021100845.html

[KamaAina]

2. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL)

was born in Cuba. She most likely came here as a young child after the Batista regime fell.

[elleng]

3. Just remembered that!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ileana_Ros-Lehtinen

[hfojvt]

4. I am having a hard time finding out

although I know that the former Governor of California was borm in Austria.

This list includes people born in the US to parents from India http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_Americans#Politics

I found this guy, a Republican from Louisiana, who was born in Vietnam http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Cao

[KamaAina]

5. Cao was chased out of Congress after one term

he managed to win a D+27 or so district because "Dollar Bill" Jefferson still had just enough support to win the primary. :grr: Two years later, Cedric Richmond set things to rights.

edit: Cao's brief tenure will be most remembered for his casting the only repuke vote in favor of the Affordable Care Act.

[pampango]

7. I wonder why we have so few. Are immigrants relatively more accepted by native Canadians or

do they get elected mainly from districts that are heavily immigrant? Many of Canada's big cities are very multicultural.

[SidDithers]

6. Muticulturalism vs The Melting Pot...nt

Sid