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Fact Sheets

Fact Sheets

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Fact Sheets
March 2026

Native Language Assessments for K-12 English Learners: A 2025 State-Level Snapshot

Native language assessments are an important tool for measuring what K–12 English Learner (EL) students know in core academic subjects, independent of their English proficiency level. This fact sheet provides an overview of which states offer assessments in students’ home languages, for which subjects, and how this landscape has changed in recent years.

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Fact Sheets
February 2026

A Profile of the Growing Black Immigrant Population in the United States

The Black immigrant population in the United States has both grown considerably since 1990 and become more diverse, with the one-time heavily Caribbean and Latin American origins now more evenly mixed with arrivals from Africa. This fact sheet uses U.S. Census Bureau data to explore the demographic, workforce, and household characteristics of this group, which makes up 9 percent of the country’s overall immigrant population.

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Fact Sheets
February 2026

Graduating into Uncertainty: Unauthorized Immigrant Students in U.S. High Schools

All high school students face important questions about what comes next after graduation. Those who are unauthorized immigrants face additional challenges—from heightened immigration enforcement to states walking back in-state tuition policies for these students. This fact sheet provides estimates of the number and characteristics of unauthorized immigrant children who are reaching the end of high school and graduating from K-12 schools across the United States each year.

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Fact Sheets
October 2025

Changing Origins, Rising Numbers: Unauthorized Immigrants in the United States

The 13.7 million unauthorized immigrants living in the United States as of mid-2023 reflect increasingly diverse origins, socioeconomic and labor market characteristics, family composition, and places of settlement. This fact sheet explores those trends, drawing on MPI's detailed data profiles of the unauthorized immigrant population at U.S., state, and top county levels. 

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Fact Sheets
August 2025

A Data Profile of Young Dual Language Learners and Implications for Early Childhood Programs

Dual Language Learners (DLLs)—young children with at least one parent who speaks a language other than English—make up one-third of all children ages 0–5 in the United States. This fact sheet series and related resources provide essential data on the number and characteristics of DLL children and their families nationwide and in the 30 states with the most DLLs.

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Fact Sheets
August 2024

Monitoring and Evaluation in Sponsorship and Complementary Pathways for Refugees and Other People in Need of International Protection

How can monitoring and evaluation (M&E) help refugee sponsorship and complementary pathway programs achieve their goals? This fact sheet answers these and other questions about M&E approaches and good practices in this evolving policy area.

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Fact Sheets
August 2024

Supporting Volunteer Engagement in Sponsorship and Complementary Pathways for Refugees and Other People in Need of International Protection

Community members play an important part in sponsorship and complementary pathway programs, acting as volunteers who welcome and support refugees and others in need of international protection. This fact sheet explores the benefits and key components of effective volunteer engagement.

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Fact Sheets
August 2024

Approaches to Matching in Sponsorship and Complementary Pathways for Refugees and Other People in Need of International Protection

Sponsorship and complementary pathway programs take different approaches to matching refugees and others in need of international protection with receiving communities, sponsors, or employers. This fact sheet identifies key elements of successful matching strategies and the many benefits of a good match.

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Fact Sheets
August 2024

Managing the Expectations of Refugees and Other People in Need of International Protection in Sponsorship and Complementary Pathways Programs

Helping refugees and others in need of international protection understand what life will be like in a new society is an important part of any sponsorship or complementary pathway program. This fact sheet considers emerging good practices related to when and how expectations management happens.

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Fact Sheets
August 2024

U.S. Legal Pathways for Mexican and Central American Immigrants, by the Numbers

Policymakers across the Americas are weighing whether and how to expand legal migration pathways as alternatives to unauthorized movement. But what pathways already exist, and how widely are they used? This fact sheet provides an overview of available pathways to the United States for migrants from Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, and data on the changing use of these channels.

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