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IMMIGRATION CONTINUES TO BE A COMPLEX CONVERSATION, BUT THE TRUTH IS SO MANY FAMILIES SUFFER FOR THE RIGHT TO LIVE PEACEFULLY. BY CY WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS BY JESSICA WETTERER
1 in 6 According to the American Immigration Council (AIC), 1 in 6 people who live in Texas are immigrants. In conjunction to that, 1 in 6 people who currently reside in Texas are U.S.-born citizens with at least one parent who is an immigrant.
52% According to a fact sheet titled “Texas’s Immigrant and U.S.-Born Parents of Young and ElementarySchool-Age Children,” compiled by the Migration Policy Institute, in April 2021, of the 690,000 immigrant parents of children ages 0 to 4 in Texas, 52% of are women. Of the 840,000 immigrant parents of children ages 5 to 10, 53% are women.
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