The Backstory: The Impact of Immigration on Fairfax County, Virginia




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Summary: Fairfax County, Virginia, is a community that has been "transformed dramatically by immigration." As NPR's Tom Gjelten writes in his new book "A Nation of Nations: A Great America Immigration Story," the foreign-born population in Fairfax County has exploded in recent years with nearly one in three current residents born outside the United States.