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According to the Census, around one in five Chicago residents is foreign-born.—Brittney Melton, NPR, 9 Oct. 2025 Universities also rely on the program, and in 2021, one study estimated that more than a fifth of college faculty members were foreign-born.—Patricia Lopez, Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2025 Twenty-seven percent of Californians are foreign-born.—Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 20 Sep. 2025 Nearly one in five STEM workers nationwide are foreign-born, as are 43 percent of doctoral-level scientists and engineers in the United States.—Javier Palomarez, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for foreign-born
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