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===Ethnic groups=== In 2017, Albert Kyaw, a translator of the [[Garden City Public Schools]], stated that Garden City was the most ethnically diverse community in the state of Kansas. That year, according to Frank Morris of [[National Public Radio]], "some say" the residents may speak up to 40 different languages; at least 27 were spoken.<ref name=MorrisGardenCity>{{cite web|author=Morris, Frank|url=https://www.npr.org/2017/02/19/516016940/a-thriving-rural-towns-winning-formula-faces-new-threats-under-trump-administrat|title=A Thriving Rural Town's Winning Formula Faces New Threats Under Trump Administration|publisher=[[National Public Radio]]|date=2017-02-19|access-date=2017-02-25}}</ref> The 2020 census found that 53.1 percent of the city's population was Hispanic.<ref name="Census Bureau">{{cite web |title=Garden City, Kansas |url=https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/gardencitycitykansas/PST045221` |website=Quick Facts |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau |access-date=February 23, 2023}}</ref> Hispanics and Latinos, including immigrants, came to Garden City beginning in the 1980s due to the establishment of [[Golden Triangle of Meat-packing|meatpacking plants]] and partially due to plant management deliberately recruiting them. Many educational institutions for adults were teaching Hispanic immigrants after they had asked for amnesty for having illegally immigrated.<ref name=BensonKansas>Benson, Janet E. ([[Kansas State University]]). "[https://migration.ucdavis.edu/cf/more.php?id=157 Garden City: Meatpacking and Immigration to the High Plains – Dr. Janet E. Benson]." [[University of California, Davis]]. Retrieved February 25, 2017.</ref> After the [[Fall of Saigon]] in 1975 immigrants from [[Southeast Asia]] began coming to Garden City. Garden City Catholics sponsored an initial group of Vietnamese immigrants that year. More Vietnamese came in the 1980s during a wave of immigration, and [[Lao American|Lao]] people also came with them. Dr. Janet E. Benson of [[Kansas State University]] stated that perhaps about half originated from [[Wichita, Kansas|Wichita]] as they had lost work during industry layoffs there. The second group of Vietnamese were less educated than the first, and they were more likely to be Buddhist as opposed to being Christian. In their home country they had originally done agricultural and/or fishing work. By the late 1980s many Mexican immigrants replaced Vietnamese immigrants who had moved away from Garden City as they accumulated enough capital to seek employment elsewhere.<ref name=BensonKansas/>
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