Nearly 30 Percent of US College Students Come From Immigrant Families: Report

Nearly one-third (28 percent) of all the students enrolled in the US colleges and universities in 2018 were from immigrant families, up from 20 percent in 2000, according to a new analysis by the Migration Policy Institute.

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“In higher education, we are producing and training the future workforce. That future workforce has more students from immigrant families than previously understood,” said Miriam Feldblum, executive director of the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, to the New York Times.

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