Born Elsewhere, Working Here

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For many Americans, the phrase “foreign-born worker” likely conjures an image of a recently arrived guy with a mustache and a thick accent, toiling away in a restaurant kitchen. The reality is more complicated, as a new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics makes clear. And this reality increasingly matters, as immigrants (whether in the U.S. legally or not) come to constitute a growing share of the workforce.

As of last year, foreign-born workers accounted for 15.7

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