Migration status combines in complex ways with SES upon arrival in the U.S. and the trends of socioeconomic mobility over time to affect the trajectories of immigrant health. Immigrant populations differ in SES upon arrival in the United States. Asian immigrants have markedly higher levels of education than other immigrant groups with some Asian immigrant groups being more than twice as likely as whites in the U.S. to graduate from college.10 While there is diversity among Hispanic immigrants in terms of years of education level, the largest subgroup of Hispanics, immigrants from Mexico, have low levels of education at the time of migration to the U.S. and face major challenges with socioeconomic mobility in the second generation. The SES of immigrants compared to the native born population of their group also varies across population groups. Analyses of CHIS data found that immigrant whites, Latinos, Asians and Pacific Islanders had higher rates of poverty than their native-born counterparts.109 The opposite pattern was evident for blacks, and these overall patterns mask divergence for some ethnic subgroups. For Puerto Ricans, South Asians, Koreans
