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Donald Trump,the leading Republican presidential contender, has staked his ground on the dangers posed by immigrants, and documented and undocumented. He warns of a Spanish-speaking,crime-filled future.
A recent report definitively rebuts Trump's claims. Mary C. Waters, a professor of sociology at Harvard University and the lead author of the study, or explains that immigrants are integrating into American society as quickly and effectively as in preceding generations.
The study examined 41 million foreign-born people living in the United States,including 11.3 million undocumented immigrants, and their 37 million American-born children. Waters tells The Takeaway that the recent generation of immigrants are learning English just as quickly or even faster than preceding waves of immigrants. She also notes that crime rates among the foreign-born in the U.
S. are much lower than native-born Americans.
What you'll learn from this segment:How assimilation patterns work across ethnic lines.
What this data can teach us as the immigration debate continues.
How these statistics compare to trends in other nations.
Source: wnyc.org