The last major wave of British immigrants to the colonies took place from 1720-1775.
More recently there have been two waves of immigrants from Haiti.
As a result, the region became attractive to a wave of recent immigrants.
There followed several waves of immigrants whose descendants number around 50,000.
The last wave of immigrants occurred between 1945 and 1955.
The 19th century also saw the first wave of immigrants from Europe.
They are by no means the first wave of immigrants to have done so.
Civil rights groups say the rules are a reaction to recent waves of immigrants.
This wave of immigrants has reached its peak in the 1980s.
But that business has been hit by competition from a new wave of Chinese immigrants.
