Recent Mexican Immigration to Texas and the United States Is Becoming More Highly Skilled, New Research Finds
WASHINGTON – The number of Mexican immigrants in the United States with at least a bachelor’s degree has more than doubled since 2000, with highly skilled Mexicans now the fourth largest group of college-educated immigrants in the country, after those from India, China and the Philippines.
This increase, primarily explained by the higher educational attainment seen with recent arrivals, is discussed in a new fact sheet from the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) and Southern Methodist University’s Mission Foods Texas-Mexico Center, A Profile of Highly Skilled Mexican Immigrants in Texas and the United States.
The fact sheet offers a socio-demographic profile of college-educated Mexican immigrants and examines their destinations, legal status and top industries of employment in the state that is home to more than one-fourth of all highly skilled Mexican immigrants nationwide. It also includes select U.S. data.
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/recent-mexican-immigration-texas-united-states-becoming-more-highly-skilled
