Paul N. McDaniel

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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

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

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