Simply put, the success of immigrant students depends directly on the support they get in the classroom.
One estimate is that there are 65,000 illegal immigrant students in 2008.
Other immigrant students in the audience were more concerned with policies that shape their own lives.
Nobody at the department suggests that the number of immigrant students has suddenly dropped.
"We are glad that, as immigrant students, we've learned how to help other people in America," he wrote.
You need not look much further than the huge and continuing increase in the population of immigrant students.
He said many minority and immigrant students were being shut out of the programs.
They're forcing the immigrant students out of their own neighborhood.
In 2008 Pershing had a large number of immigrant students.
Our program provides immigrant students with 25 hours a week of high-quality instruction.