Poverty level surged among new immigrants under Biden

The immigrants President Biden welcomed to the U.S. over the last four years were poorer and less educated than their predecessors, according to a new study being released Wednesday.

The number of newcomers who never advanced past high school is now larger than those with a bachelor’s degree, for the first time in more than a decade. And the median annual earnings of new immigrant men dropped to about $32,000 a year, down from more than $50,000 during the Trump administration, according to the Center for Immigration Studies.

Both numbers reflect the surge in illegal immigrants and their heavily Latin American origins, said Steven A. Camarota, the lead author of the study.