As African Immigration Has Grown, Education Level Has Declined
By Steven A. Camarota on January 30, 2018
Expanded from a January 29, 2018, National Review Online article.
President Trump's alleged derogatory comments about some African counties have sparked interest in immigrants from those countries to the United States. As the Census Bureau data below makes clear, immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa are well educated and most do reasonably well.*
However, decades ago when this population was much smaller, it was also much more educated. In those days most came as foreign students or to fill skilled jobs. This produced a population much more educated than native-born Americans. Over time, as family-based chain migration began to dominate the flow of new arrivals, along with the visa lottery and refugee resettlement, the education level of this population declined dramatically relative to the native-born.
https://cis.org/Camarota/African-Immigration-Has-Grown-Education-Level-Has-Declined
