(New York Times) Lynette Clemetson - The U.S. Census Bureau has provided specially tabulated population statistics on Arab-Americans to the Department of Homeland Security. The tabulations were produced in August 2002 and December 2003 in response to requests from what is now the Customs and Border Protection division of the Department of Homeland Security. One set listed cities with more than 1,000 Arab-Americans. The second, far more detailed, provided ZIP-code-level breakdowns of Arab-American populations, sorted by country of origin. The categories provided were Egyptian, Iraqi, Jordanian, Lebanese, Moroccan, Palestinian, Syrian, and two general categories, "Arab/Arabic" and "Other Arab."
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