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Tags: population, student
“As Maria Bravo crossed the stage Friday to receive her two USC degrees ”” in accounting and in finance ”” she might have reflected on what life would be like if her father, Silverio, had not brought her to America when she was 7 years old.
“I think about it every day,” the 22-year-old Mexican-born woman said earlier this week, amid exams and preparations for graduation.
Bravo is part of a burgeoning trend in South Carolina’s population ”” Hispanic immigrants who have found a niche in South Carolina’s fast-growing economy and made a life here. At the University of South Carolina, Hispanic undergraduate enrollment has soared 58 percent since 1999, to 346 students from 219.”
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