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<div class="Normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">WASHINGTON: Immigrants from Asian nations like India and China, nearly half of them holding at least a bachelor's degree, are raising average education levels in many American states, according to latest official statistics.
</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Although the number of immigrants in America has reached an all-time high of 37.5 million in 2006, there is significant disparity in education and income levels, the Census Bureau, which released the data, said.
</span><br><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Immigrants from India and China are driving the Asian percentages up in the realm of education either arriving with a bachelor's degree or getting a higher degree upon arrival, the Bureau pointed out.
</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Asian immigrants are raising average education levels in many states, with nearly half of them holding at least a bachelor's degree. </span><br><br><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">"There is no one-size-fits-all policy that you could apply for all immigrant groups. I think most of the attention has been on low-skilled workers coming from Mexico. But we have 10 million immigrants from Asia, a number that's growing," Mark Mather of the Population Reference Bureau said.
</span><br><br><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">About 48 per cent of Asian immigrants held at least a bachelor's degree, compared with about 11 per cent of immigrants from Latin America. Among people born in the US, about 27 per cent were college graduates.
</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">"Driving this are people coming from China and India," Mather said. "They are either coming with a bachelor's degree, or they are coming with visas and getting degrees once they arrive."
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