net number of new Mexicans<\/a> settling in the United States at zero.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n1. This assertion relies on government data, which Syracuse University\u2019s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse vigorously disputes. Syracuse University essentially accuses the government of cooking the books.
\n2. The government\u2019s estimates, not to mention FAIR\u2019s and the Pew Hispanic Center\u2019s, are that the illegal population is growing again.
\n3. Whatever slowing down occurred was due to the collapse of the U.S. labor market and stepped-up enforcement at the end of the Bush administration. The former, we hope, will not persist while the Obama administration has made it clear the latter will not persist.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe total number of immigrants, legal and illegal, arriving in the 2000s grew at half the rate of the 1990s, according to the Census Bureau.\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n1. I think this is what Benjamin Disraeli had in mind when he uttered his famous quip about \u201clies, damned lies, and statistics.\u201d As your baseline gets higher and higher growth appears much smaller when stated in percentages.
\n2. In fact, the 2010 Census data shows huge growth in both the foreign born population and among their U.S.-born kids.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday, barely a third of adult immigrants have a high-school diploma. But the children of Latino immigrants have always outperformed their parents in educational achievement. By 2030 we expect 80 percent of their children who arrived in the 1990s before age 10 to have completed high school and 18 percent to have a bachelor\u2019s degree.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n1. The two-thirds who do not have high school diplomas are going to be with us for quite some time and will be heavily subsidized. Even those who have just a high school diploma will be working at low-wage jobs and will need to be subsidized.
\n2. The Latino high school dropout rate is more than double the overall rate. Not very encouraging.
\n3. If 18% have bachelor\u2019s degrees in 2030 that means that 82% will not.<\/p>\n
\u201cAmong those in the wave of 1990s immigrants, just 20 percent owned a home in 2000. We expect that percentage to rise to 69 percent \u2014 and 74 percent for all immigrants \u2014 by 2030, well above the historical average for all Americans.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n1. Wasn\u2019t it the sharp increase in the number of people who \u201cowned\u201d homes they could not possibly hope to pay for what got us into this mess in the first place? Millions of people have absolutely no equity in their homes. That\u2019s not ownership; it\u2019s renting from the mortgage company without the benefit of having someone else pay for repairs.
\n2. Is he really predicting real estate trends 18 years into the future?<\/p>\n
\u201cEconomists forecast labor-force growth to drop below 1 percent later this decade because of retiring baby boomers.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n1. Given the anemic job creation and the millions of people who are unemployed or underemployed, why do we need labor force growth?<\/p>\n
\u201cImmigrants\u2019 extraordinary progress in assimilating would be faster if federal and state policies encouraged it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n1. Ah, so what we need is a government program to deal with the consequences of a failed government program, i.e. our immigration policy.<\/p>\n
\u201cMeanwhile, states with large immigrant populations are cutting the budgets of community and state colleges, precisely where immigrant students predominantly enroll.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n1. Maybe those states are cutting these budgets because they are being forced to spend so much money providing services to their large immigrant populations?<\/p>\n
\u201cFor starters, the billions of dollars spent on border enforcement should be gradually redirected to replenishing and boosting the education budget, particularly the Pell grant program for low-income students.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n1. Aside from the absurdity of ending border enforcement, wouldn\u2019t leaving the borders open and offering heavily subsidized education to anyone who comes across the open border just consume all the money we\u2019re saving on the Border Patrol and then some?<\/p>\n
\u201cSecond, the Departments of Labor, Commerce and Education need to play a greater role in immigration policy\u2026immigration policy is all about cultivating needed workers\u2026It means assistance in developing migrants\u2019 job skills to better compete in an increasingly information- and knowledge-based economy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n1. Assuming that we actually need the workers, wouldn\u2019t it make more sense to devise an immigration policy which selects people who already have the training we need than take lots of people who have no identifiable skills and try to \u201ccultivate\u201d them?
\n2. How do you cultivate \u201cmigrants\u2019 job skills to better compete in an increasingly information- and knowledge-based economy,\u201d when, by you own admission \u201cbarely a third of adult immigrants have a high school diploma\u201d?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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