Monterey Park - The Chinese Beverly Hills

After Monterey Park went Asian majority, there was a chain reaction effect in the region. It used to be really hard for people from Asia, as well as Africa and other non-European countries to come to the US. In 1965, federal leaders influenced by the civil rights movement going on at the time eased those restrictions. By 1990, it was more than half Asian, mostly Chinese and Taiwanese and Hong Kongers,. But also Cambodians, Vietnamese, Thai.