Report shows immigrants tend to be in stable families

Read this whole article, there are some very interesting comparisons here between illegal immigrants and the rest of the population. Education, age, income, etc. - - Donna Poisl

by Linda Chavez

A new report out this week from the Pew Hispanic Center confirms what many observers already suspected about the U.S. illegal immigrant population: It is made up increasingly of intact families and their American-born children. Nearly half of illegal immigrant households consist of two-parent families with children, and 73 percent of these children were born here and are U.S. citizens.

Hard-line immigration restrictionists will, no doubt, find more cause for alarm in these numbers. But they should represent hope to the rest of us. One of the chief social problems afflicting this country is the breakdown in the traditional family. But among immigrants, the two-parent household is alive and well.

Only 21 percent of native households are made up of two parents living with their own children. Among the illegal population, 47 percent of households consist of a mother, a father and their children.
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