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Undocumented students are immigrants who entered the United States without inspection or overstayed their visas & are present in the United States with or without their parents. They face unique legal uncertainties and limitations within the U.S. educational system. Most children of undocumented immigrants—73% in 2008—are U.S. citizens by birth. This number has increased rapidly in recent years, from 2.7 million in 2003 to 4 million in 2008.〔Passel, Cohn 2009, p. 7.〕 By contrast, the number of unauthorized immigrant children has stayed constant at 1.5 million since 2008 and may have declined slightly since 2005.〔 ==Demographics== It is difficult to determine national statistics for the demographic make up of undocumented students. However, we can infer that statistics for undocumented students would be very closely related to those for the unauthorized immigrant population as a whole. Approximately 17% of undocumented immigrants are under the age of 18. While a majority of undocumented students come from Mexico and other Latin American countries, nearly 25 percent do not. After Latin America, the second-largest sending region is Asia. There are slightly more than 1.4 million undocumented Asians, 12 percent of the total undocumented population.〔Gonzales 2009, p. 10.〕 In some states, particularly California, undocumented Asians make up a disproportionate number of undocumented students in colleges and universities. In the University of California system, since the implementation of Assembly Bill (AB) 540 — a bill that allows students who have attended and graduated from California high schools to pay tuition at in-state rates — Asians have made up 40 to 44 percent of all undocumented students paying in-state tuition.〔Gonzales 2010, p. 10.〕 In the 2005-06 academic year, Asian students represented 55 to 60 percent of students paying in-state tuition under AB 540.〔 File:Region of birth for unauthorized immigrant population in the United States (2009).jpg 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Undocumented students in the United States」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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