The amount of immigrant high school dropouts is rapidly increasing.
Nearly half of American resident dropouts ages 25-54, known as prime working age, were immigrants in 2014, an analysis of the 2015 American Community Survey published by The American Conservative Monday reveals. Immigrants made up less than five percent of this demographic in 1970.
The Center for Immigration Studies recently found that low-skilled immigrants are replacing their low-skilled American counterparts. The study found that native-born prime-age Americans without a high school degree worked an average of 34.8 weeks a year between 2003 and 2015, while immigrant prime-age high school dropouts worked an average 48.9 weeks a year in that same time frame.
Jason Richwine, the author of the September study, wrote, “Among natives without a high school degree, the fraction who were neither working nor looking for work rose from 26 percent in 1994 to 35 percent in 2015.” Richwine also found that this gap of weeks worked between high-skilled immigrant and native-born American workers is much less pronounced.
The American Conservative article confirms this phenomenon. The immigrant population among U.S. residents ages 25-52 who are high school graduates drops to 17.2 percent, and the amount of college graduate immigrants ages 25-54 is 16.8 percent.