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Columbia Heights schools welcoming more immigrant students

Minnesota is home to more than half a million immigrants. Census data show most of them came here from Mexico and Somalia. More recently though, we're seeing hundreds of people from Ecuador. Many of them are kids making their way through our schools. In Columbia Heights, English learners now make up 44% of the student population. WCCO's Kirsten Mitchell shows us how those kids and their parents are being welcomed with open arms.

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