I was not able to attend John Salvo’s presentation, but from a quick look at his slides I can tell that immigration, specifically the constantly changing population of New York City, is an extremely complicated subject. After analyzing the information provided, many interesting realizations can be uncovered. For me, the most interesting discovery involved immigration from the Dominican Republic to New York. Growing up in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, my early education was at schools with large Dominican populations. Despite this heavy influence in my neighborhood, I had no idea that this path of immigration accounted for 13.0% of the city’s immigrants in 2012. Even more incredible was that this accounted for almost half of total Dominican immigrants to the United States in that year. In 2012, just under ten million Dominicans immigrated to the United States, over 10% of the entire population of the Dominican Republic.