Read the excerpt from "America's Shifting views on Immigration": A panel of the Academies' scholars,
scientists, and other experts investigated the records of
41 million foreign-born residents - including about
11.3 million illegal immigrants - and their children born
in the United States. The researchers found that the
often-heard worry - that these Spanish-speaking
immigrants will never become Americans - was
baseless. According to the report, the illegals' English
language learning "is happening as rapidly or faster now
than it did for earlier waves of mainly European
immigrants in the 20th century"; their education levels,
the diversity of their jobs, and their wages are
improving, and the newest generations of immigrants
are assimilating into American society as fast and
broadly as the previous ones.
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