What do we know whether the Dreamers are productive, law abiding and speak English.
A majority (74 percent) of U.S. Protestants and Catholics support “Dreamers” receiving permanent legal status, according to a Pew Research Center report released on Jan. 19. Catholic Hispanics overwhelmingly support the Dreamers (92%).
“Dreamers” are persons brought to the U.S. as minors and who have only known the U.S. as their home.
In Arizona, the Dreamers are 4 times more likely to commit crimes than their numbers would suggest.
Younger illegal immigrants in Arizona make up a far larger percentage of the state’s prison inmates than their share of the population would suggest, according to a new analysis.
While illegal immigrants ages 18 to 35 — a group immigration activists call “Dreamers†— are about 2 percent of of the Arizona population, they are almost 8 percent of the prison population. The over-representation by a factor of four shows that younger illegal immigrants in Arizona are far more likely to commit crimes than U.S. citizens or legal immigrants of a similar age, says John Lott Jr., president of the Crime Prevention Research Center.
Roughly half of the Dreamers are literate in English. Persons who don’t speak English are not able to get jobs that will support themselves and their families.
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Aptos Psychologist:  America stopped all immigration for 40 years (1924-1965) which allowed for assimilation of all the millions who had come. Perhaps it’s time again to stop immigration and again assimilate those who are here?  To be successful here immigrants need to learn English and learn skills so they can be productive members. What say you? Comments welcome.
