NY Times: U.S. Imports Poverty as Young Migrants Account for 44% of Poor Children in US

[JGalt]

So let's import as many poor children into this country and see what happens. No way this isn't gonna bite us on the ass.

NY Times: U.S. Imports Poverty as Young Migrants Make Up 44% of Poor Children​

The United States, through mass illegal and legal immigration, is importing generations of poverty as the children of immigrants now account for 4-in-9 of all poor children living in the nation, the New York Times reveals.

In a report detailing vast poverty rates among the children of illegal and legal immigrants, the Times notes that “more than 40 percent of the country’s poor children are children of immigrants.”

Roughly 50 percent of those impoverished migrant youth are “anchor babies,” the term given to the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens as they are awarded birthright American citizenship despite their parents residing illegally in the nation.

The data suggests that anchor babies account for 2-in-10 poor children in the U.S.

“The solution is to stop importing poverty,” the Heritage Foundation’s Robert Rector told the Times, advocating for an overall reduction to legal immigration levels in addition to drastically cutting illegal immigration.

The Times reports:

Children of immigrants, the fastest-growing group of American youths, have poverty rates more than twice those of other children. That is partly because their families earn less than native workers, but also because they face more barriers to government support. The barriers are largest for children of undocumented immigrants, but families of legal immigrants face obstacles, too. [Emphasis added]
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“The more welfare that immigrants use, the more difficult it becomes to afford anti-poverty initiatives for the native-born,” said Steven A. Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that seeks to sharply reduce immigration. [Emphasis added]
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Fully 44 percent of poor children have an immigrant parent, according to research by Ms. Acevedo-Garcia, the Urban Institute, and UnidosUS, a Latino advocacy group. Nearly a fifth of poor children have an undocumented parent. [Emphasis added]

NYT: U.S. Imports Poverty as Young Migrants Make Up 44% of Poor Children

 

[MarathonMike]

Immigrant children cost many times more in local, state and Federal assistance than the adults. Obviously they will need years of education, food, shelter, health care etc. before they ever generate one dollar of revenue. A premature immigrant baby will end up costing MILLIONS of dollars and many of them will require assistance their entire life. That's just the cold reality of what is happening.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

We will not only import the poor, we will keep them poor. At one time, long ago, immigrants worked hard, became educated, each generation did better than the last. That belongs to the old America. Knowledge isn't as important as the right opinion. Schools are no longer bastions of inquiry and education. They are indoctrination centers that spread the gospel of the new religion.

Immigrants, legal or illegal will never achieve what their ancestors achieved. Not in this country.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

We will not only import the poor, we will keep them poor. At one time, long ago, immigrants worked hard, became educated, each generation did better than the last. That belongs to the old America. Knowledge isn't as important as the right opinion. Schools are no longer bastions of inquiry and education. They are indoctrination centers that spread the gospel of the new religion.

Immigrants, legal or illegal will never achieve what their ancestors achieved. Not in this country.

You nailed it.
Dems want a stupid populace because they're easier to control.
What will end up happening is all of these stupid immigrants will be getting gov assistance and like most mexicans will be working on the side and not reporting the income.
But if dems get their way we'll have a digital banking system to make side jobs that much more difficult.