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Statue of Liberty in New York City. Immigrants make up about 13% of the US population, about 42 million out of a total population of 318.9 million citizens in 2017. [1] First and second generation immigrant children have become the fastest-growing segment of the United States population.
A small Pennsylvania town is up in arms over a proposal to turn an abandoned Civil War-era school into a shelter for hundreds of migrant families — with residents and lawmakers vowing to put a ...
On Jan. 20, United We Dream, the nation’s largest immigrant youth-led network, plans to reopen the hotline they launched during Trump's first term as president, said Anabel Mendoza, the ...
An estimated 200,000 to 225,000 college students in the United States are undocumented, according to the Pew Research Center. [8] Approximately 49% of illegal immigrants between 18 and 24 have attended college or university, compared with 71% of all US residents in this age group. [9]
Protesters opposing possible Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in public schools demonstrate on the steps of the State Department of Education during their monthly board meeting in ...
The Gallegly amendment was introduced by Representative Elton Gallegly to the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act in 1996. Its purpose was to allow states to deny public education or charge tuition to aliens not lawfully present in the United States, [1] despite the Supreme Court decision Plyler v.
Yonatan Franco, 30, a undocumented immigrant who arrived from El Salvador in 2015, had hoped to order pupusas for lunch. He and his father drove up in his black Nissan Xterra at noon to find the ...
Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (1982), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States struck down a state statute denying funding for education to undocumented immigrant children. The case simultaneously struck down a municipal school district's attempt to charge such immigrants an annual $1,000 tuition fee to compensate for state funding.