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Undocumented and under Threat of Deportation

Immigrant Students in the Classroom

View ORCID ProfileBenjamin Meadows
Journal of Human Resources, November 2023, 58 (6) 1974-2000; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.0621-11738R1
Benjamin Meadows
Benjamin Meadows (bgmeadow{at}uab.edu) is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Alabama–Birmingham.
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