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Face of Immigration Changing, As High-Skill Migrants Now Predominate Over Low-Skill Ones
By artappraiser on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 12:55pm |By Matthew Yglesias, Thinkprogress.org, June 9, 2011
[....] according to Tara Bahrampour such a shift is actually already underway and the immigrant population is now primarily high-skilled:
"Highly skilled temporary and permanent immigrants in the United States now outnumber lower-skilled ones, marking a dramatic shift in the foreign-born workforce that could have profound political and economic implications in the national debate over immigration.
This shift in America’s immigration population, based on census data, is summarized in a report released Thursday by the Brookings Institution. It found that 30 percent of the country’s working-age immigrants, regardless of legal status, have at least a bachelor’s degree, while 28 percent lack a high school diploma."
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URL:
http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2011/06/09/240587/face-of-immigration-changing-as-high-skill-migrants-now-predominate-over-low-skill-ones/
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