Thread: Immigration expert urges fact-based debate

(notice that this "expert" only mentions "immigration"...never once does he mention "illegal immigration"...of course)

Marcelo Suarez-Orozco is an example of how the immigrant labor force in America is reshaping the country.

An Argentinian by birth, he earned bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and has become an internationally acclaimed social scientist at New York University who has studied extensively the impact of immigration on the United States.

Immigrants produce a net surplus in the U.S. economy of between $40 billion and $50 billion annually, and the represent a quarter of all physicians, 40 percent of engineers and one-third of all those who possess doctoral and post-doctoral degrees, Suarez-Orozco said.

"In our country, immigration is history and destiny," he told an audience at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on Monday. "Embrace it."

Suarez-Orozco, a professor of globalization and education at NYU, spoke Monday about the social and cultural effects of immigration. He has studied the health and educational effects of immigration on various groups, and he e recently led a five-year study of students from six countries and wrote an award-winning book reporting the study's results, "Learning a New Land: Immigrant Students in American Society."

In addition to his public lecture, Suarez-Orozco met Monday with students in a psychology of immigration class and a faculty group in the College of Education and Human Sciences. He planned to meet Tuesday with teachers and administrators from Lincoln Public Schools, the Lincoln mayor's multicultural advisory group and the New Americans Task Force.

Suarez-Orozco said immigration into the United States had slowed dramatically in recent years after a nearly 20-year explosion in immigration that occurred before the U.S. recession. Prior to the recession's beginning, when the United States began closing its doors to immigrants, more than 1 million immigrants entered the country each year.

As politicians debate immigration in loud and often inaccurate voices, Suarez-Orozco said, it's important to understand the facts about immigration. Those include studies that have shown immigrants are less likely to engage in crime than others and children of immigrants are learning English much faster than children of European immigrants of past generations.

"Public discourse with immigration has reached the lowest common denominator," he said. "We need to lower the temperature."

Reach Kevin Abourezk at 402-473-7225 or kabourezk@journalstar.com.



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This guy is nothing but a race baiting globalist! I'm sure the studies he looked at come straight from the biased OBL!