| Importing Poverty: Immigration and Poverty in the United States: A Book of Charts
Rector, Robert E.
The Heritage Foundation, Special Report #9, October 25, 2006, online edition, 31p.
“Today’s immigrants differ greatly from historic immigrant populations. … Recent immigrants increasingly occupy the low end of the U.S. socio-economic spectrum. The current influx of poorly educated immigrants is the result of two factors: first, a legal immigration system that favors kinship ties over skills and education; and second, a permissive attitude toward illegal immigration that has led to lax border enforcement and non-enforcement of the laws that prohibit the employment of illegal immigrants. In recent years, these factors have produced an inflow of some ten and a half million immigrants who lack a high school education. In terms of increased poverty and expanded government expenditure, this importation of poorly educated immigrants has had roughly the same effect as the addition of ten and a half million native-born high school drop-outs.” Robert E. Rector is Senior Research Fellow in Domestic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation.
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