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you might think that hispanics are the fastest growing immigrant group in the country but you'd be wrong. a new pew studies shows that asians have surpassed them. 31% for hispanics. 10 years ago asians made up 19% of new immigrants. the number has almost doubled in just a decade. let me bring in deborah faye err rick. a lot of people are talking in our morning meeting about what this means politically, what it means economically. asian immigration way up. it still only makes up 5% of the u.s. population. explain this to us. >> reporter: it's not 5 or 6%. what we're talking about is a...

And daria hernandez. daria's son joel was born with a cleft palate. when you look at these pictures, as a mom, how does it make you feel? >> translator: it makes me sad. i look at them and i remember what we had to go through. it was difficult for him to eat. >> reporter: maria's daughter ashley also had a cleft palate. she died. when you knew she didn't have a strong immune system and that you were losing her, what did you say to her? >> translator: i apologized for not taking her earlier to the hospital, but the doctors told me it wasn't my fault, that with babies like this, this is what hap...

Drinking water and exposure to pesticides. it also has a startling number of birth defects that some residents believe could be linked to this toxic dump. in the past three years ten babies have been born with birth defects. three of those children have died. small town, troubling numbers. troubling for mothers like maria salcedo and darya hernandez. darya's son joel was born with a cleft palate. >> when you look at these pictures, as a mom, how does it make you feel? >> translator: it makes me sad because i look at them, and i remember what we had to go through. it was difficult for him to ea...