Thread: Immigrant assimilation does happen S.D.U.T. EDITORIAL

San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial

Puncturing myths

Immigrant assimilation does happen

2:00 a.m. June 11, 2009

It's the strangest thing. Much of the heat generated by the immigration debate comes from myths masquerading as facts, things which people are passionate about and know to be true but actually are false.

As when some people say immigrant birthrates in the United States are going up, but all the available research points to newcomers having smaller families for economic reasons. Or when some say immigrants aren't learning English when, actually, native-language retention is the real challenge. Or when we say illegal immigrants don't pay taxes when, actually, they pay a bundle in sales taxes and property taxes.

Also on the list: the assumption that recent waves of immigrants, especially from Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America, aren't assimilating and that they and their children usually wind up stuck in a permanent underclass because they lack wealth, skills and education.

Again, simply not true, according to a timely and important new study from researchers Michael J. White and Jennifer E. Glick, who examined the issue for the Russell Sage Foundation. The study – “Achieving Anew: How New Immigrants Do in American School, Jobs, and Neighborhoodsâ€

This article is full of haf-truths and down right lies.

As an example:
Or when we say illegal immigrants don't pay taxes when, actually, they pay a bundle in sales taxes and property taxes.

Illegals don't pay taxes on their income and then claim that they are poor and then they collect welfare, health care and free goodies off of our tax dollars. Anyone that is even visting America pays sales tax, that's part of the deal. In fact, I don't know any ountry that allows visitors to not pay sales tax. And how and why are illegals buying property, it is against our laws for them to buy property. They have to steal documets to show they are citizens to buy property in our country. And too, there are many cases that invovle illegals buying property and then they just leave in the dark of night without notice. And then, they do the same thing in other locations. When the realtors go back in the houses they are usually destroyed and the property loss hurts the entire community.

So this article is more nonsence. Read between the lies!

And how and why are illegals buying property, it is against our laws for them to buy property. They have to steal documets to show they are citizens to buy property in our country.

There is no law that requires anyone to be a citizen to buy property in the U.S.
That is how the Chinese and people from other countries buy businesses and real estate here.

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How can anyone report on a 'Study' on not include any 'Facts' about the study itself?

As when some people say immigrant birthrates in the United States are going up, but all the available research points to newcomers having smaller families for economic reasons.

This is one of those half-truths ELE is talking about. They may be having smaller families (I don't know), but that doesn't change the fact that more of the so-called "newcomers," especially the illegal variety, have been arriving here. And yes, many of them have been having babies.

Report: Illegal immigrants having more kids in US
By HOPE YEN, The Associated Press 4:55 p.m. April 14, 2009

WASHINGTON — Growing numbers of children of illegal immigrants are being born in this country, and they are nearly twice as likely to live in poverty than those with American-born parents, a report says.

The study released Tuesday by the Pew Hispanic Center highlights a growing dilemma in the immigration debate: Illegal immigrants' children born in the United States are American citizens, yet they struggle in poverty and uncertainty along with parents who fear deportation, toil largely in low-wage jobs and face layoffs in an ailing economy.

The analysis by Pew, a nonpartisan research organization, estimated that 11.9 million illegal immigrants lived in the U.S. Of those, 8.3 million were in the labor force as of March 2008, making up 5.4 percent of the U.S. work force, primarily in lower-paying farming, construction or janitorial work.

Roughly three out of four of their children – or 4 million – were born in the U.S. In 2003, 2.7 million children of illegal immigrants, or 63 percent, were born in this country.

Overall, illegal immigrants' children account for one of every 15 students in kindergarten through 12th grade.

Illegal immigrants also have become more geographically dispersed, increasingly passing up typical destinations like California in favor of jobs in newly emerging Hispanic areas in Southeastern states like Georgia and North Carolina.

In 2008, California had the most illegal immigrants at 2.7 million, double its 1990 number, followed by Texas, Florida, New York and New Jersey. Still, California's 22 percent share of the nation's illegal immigrant population was a marked drop-off from its 42 percent share in 1990.
The latest demographic snapshot comes as President Barack Obama is preparing to address the politically sensitive issue of immigration reform later this year, including a proposal to give illegal immigrants a path to citizenship.

Though their numbers have soared over the past two decades, the total number of illegal immigrants in the U.S. has declined or remained flat in the last few years. Demographers attribute that to slower rates of migration into the U.S. caused in part by the recession, as well as to deportations and stepped-up immigration enforcement during the Bush administration.

Among the findings:

–One-third of the children of illegal immigrants live in poverty, nearly double the rate for children of U.S.-born parents.

–Illegal immigrants' share of low-wage jobs has grown in recent years, from 10 percent of construction jobs in 2003 to 17 percent in 2008. They also make up 25 percent of workers in farming and 19 percent in building maintenance.

–The 2007 median household income of illegal immigrants was $36,000, compared with $50,000 for U.S.-born residents. In contrast to other immigrants, illegal immigrants do not earn markedly higher incomes the longer they live in the United States.

–About 47 percent of illegal immigrant households have children, compared with 21 percent for U.S.-born residents and 35 percent for legal immigrants.

–About three-quarters, or 76 percent, of illegal immigrants in the U.S. are Hispanic. The majority came from Mexico (59 percent), numbering 7 million. Other regions included Asia (11 percent), Central America (11 percent), South America (7 percent), the Caribbean (4 percent) and the Middle East (2 percent).

Children of illegal immigrants hold a delicate place in the U.S. On the one hand, the Supreme Court ruled in 1982 that these children – whether they were U.S. citizens or not – were entitled to a public school education. California and a few other states also provide some college tuition breaks to illegal immigrants.

At the same time, the immigrants and their families are among the poorest people in the U.S., easily exploited by employers and subject to arrest at any time. Children who are U.S. citizens cannot petition for their parents to become legal U.S. residents until they are at least 21.
Earlier this year, the Homeland Security Department's inspector general found that more than 100,000 parents of U.S. citizens were deported over the decade ending in 2007, prompting the department to say it would gather more information about families before deporting immigrants.
The Pew analysis is based on census data through March 2008. Because the Census Bureau does not ask people about their immigration status, the estimate on illegal immigrants is derived largely by subtracting the estimated legal immigrant population from the total foreign-born population.
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On the Net:
Pew Hispanic Center: http://pewhispanic.org/

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Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

[b]According to the study, the poverty gap between immigrants and natives decreased from 1994 to 2004 and the poverty level for immigrants fell over the entire decade

The reason the gap decreased is because illegal aliens took jobs from natives bringing the native's to poverty level! Not because illegals suddenly went to college and assimilated into middle and upper-class white color jobs.

Legal citizens have been losing the economic battle with illegal aliens since the last amnesty in 1986 and if another amnesty is granted, this country will turn into a third world country with nothing but poverty for all.