Having only recently arrived in the United States, most #Nicaraguan Americans have maintained their traditions and beliefs.

The majority of #Nicaraguans have entered the United States without the knowledge of immigration authorities. Because most #Nicaraguan immigrants are undocumented, and therefore deportable, collecting information about them is difficult.

The most common myth pertaining to #Nicaraguan Americans is that they are all former Somocistas, as the followers of Somoza are called. This is untrue.

The second immigration wave occurred during the early 1980s, when the #Nicaraguan government was reorganized. Many non-Sandinista members of the coalition as well as industrialists whose companies had been seized by the state left the country—some ending up in the United States

Mark Lopez, Olympic silver medalist in Taekwondo, #Nicaraguan #American

The Somoza regime's long affiliation with the U.S. government meant that some #Nicaraguan exiles already had well-placed U.S. government contacts and friends before they arrived in the United States.

The true number of #Nicaraguan immigrants can only be estimated, but by 1995 it was probably over 250,000

Over 90 % of #Nicaraguan immigrants self-reported as "white" on the 1970 census.

Over 80 municipal governments created U.S.-#Nicaraguan sister city agreements. The U.S. cities sent medical supplies, food, and farming materials to their counterpart cities in Nicaragua. Some churches created what were called "sanctuaries" for undocumented immigrants.

Each year, #Nicaraguan Americans send millions of dollars home to their families in Nicaragua. Thirty-six % of Managuan households with relatives abroad received an average of $79 each month, according to a Sandinista government source

Because so many are undocumented immigrants, and so many work in clandestine jobs for low wages, many poorer #Nicaraguan Americans have no health insurance

Because the #Nicaraguan American community in San Francisco, for instance, is relatively diffuse, #Nicaraguan Americans there are assimilating into a pan-Latino culture more rapidly than they are assimilating into non-Latino culture.

The true number of #Nicaraguan immigrants can only be estimated, but by 1995 it was probably over 250,000

Miami, the capital of the exile, is the center of #Nicaraguan American life.

Each year, #Nicaraguan Americans send millions of dollars home to their families in Nicaragua. Thirty-six % of Managuan households with relatives abroad received an average of $79 each month, according to a Sandinista government source

Common among leftist American writers in the 1980s was the stereotype of the happy, friendly #Nicaraguan

#Nicaraguan American families tend to be larger than is typical in the United States. The tradition of larger families may have its origin in Nicaragua's agricultural economy, where more children meant more help to plant and harvest

#Nicaraguan Americans are overwhelmingly #Roman Catholic, and Nicaragua's Catholicism is very much centered around the Virgin Mary

#Nicaraguan Americans typically find work by word of mouth through family or friends who have established themselves in the community, and they tend to work in specific niches that are related to these unofficial word-of-mouth networks