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The Mexican-American community in southwest Detroit held a rally in March 2025, asking ICE to leave the immigrant community alone. Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Detroit’s population grew in 2023, 2024 − a strategy to welcome immigrants helps explain the turnaround from decades of population decline

Paul N. McDaniel, Kennesaw State University and Darlene Xiomara Rodriguez, Kennesaw State University

Attracting immigrants is key to growing and maintaining a more resilient economy in former industrial cities like Detroit.

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