Philadelphia area sees immigration growth

afterhoursfriends.com — More than 500,000 immigrants call the Philadelphia metropolitan area home, with more than one-fifth of them arriving since 2000, according to a new report. Between 2000 and 2006, the immigrant population in the region grew by 113,000 - nearly as many as had arrived during the entire 1990s - comprising 9 percent of the population, according to the