Immigrants are playing a significant role in Connecticut’s economy and are a force in the state’s demographic evolution, a new report Monday shows, pointing out that one in six state residents born in the U.S. has at least one immigrant parent.
“The fact that so many people in Connecticut do have one parent who is an immigrant is a higher number than I expected,” said Robert J. Fishman, executive director of the Connecticut Immigration and Refugee Coalition, a non-profit advocacy group. “And I like that, but it was higher than I thought it was.”
The report from the American Immigration Council, a national advocacy group, was released on the same day Connecticut joined 16 other states and the District of Columbia in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration policy that would prevent international college students from remaining in the U.