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More Than 408,000 Illegal Immigrants Enrolled in US Colleges: Report

Around 1.9 percent of students enrolled in American colleges in 2021 were living in the country illegally, a new report has found.
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More Than 408,000 Illegal Immigrants Enrolled in US Colleges: Report
Proponents for affirmative action in higher education rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court before oral arguments in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina, in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 31, 2022. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Bill Pan
By Bill Pan
8/9/2023Updated: 8/9/2023
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More than 408,000 students enrolled in American colleges and universities in 2021 were living in the country illegally, a new report has found.

The number makes up 1.9 percent of all college students for that year, which represents the more recent available data, according to the report published on Aug. 2 by the non-profits American Immigration Council and the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration.
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Bill Pan is an Epoch Times reporter covering education issues and New York news.
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