June 15, 2005

Study counters beliefs about illegal immigrants


Drive by: First read this on Booker Rising.

Went to this blog to read his take on it.

Then went to the article, for which you must register.

Study counters beliefs about illegal immigrants

By Jessie Mangaliman

Mercury News

One quarter of the country's 10.3 million illegal immigrants have some college education and live with families, shattering a stereotype that this sector of the population is made up of poorly educated single men who work menial jobs, according to a national report released Tuesday.

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Passel's report dismantled another widely held assumption: Only 3 percent of the undocumented immigrants work in agriculture. The greatest numbers, 33 percent, work in the service industry.

So much for the "Blacks won't work" bull.

Hat tip: Booker Rising

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