Ignorance is costlier than immigrants

We’re under siege. They’re swamping our schools and hospitals. They’re compounding the crime rate. They’re declaring a cultural war by refusing to learn English and otherwise assimilate into American culture.

Those are some of the public perceptions, anyway, of illegal immigrants, as reflected in Rice University sociology professor Stephen Klineberg’s latest annual Houston Area Survey.

On some level, it’s easy to see how well-founded concerns over immigration could have devolved into widespread hysteria after three years of constant politicization and media hype.”*

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