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this kind of blows up your theory about them being "dullards"...

...with distinct competitive advantages going to those immigrants with the greatest amount of U.S. education.

How Immigrants Fare finds that those newcomers who get in and remain in the U.S. public school system have equaled or exceeded the educational attainment of native youth. Those immigrants are more likely than natives to take college preparatory courses, just as likely or more likely to graduate from high school within four years from their sophomore year, and more likely than their native counterparts to attend college and remain there continuously for four years. And they are likely to have parents with higher expectations of college attendance for their children than do native-born Americans.