1 in 5 Americans Have Close Ties Elsewhere

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/20/us/20brfs-1IN5AMERICAN_BRF.html?_r=1&partner=r...

Nearly one in five Americans are either immigrants or were born in the United States to at least one parent from abroad, the Census Bureau said Tuesday. The second generation was more likely to be better educated and earn more and less likely to be living in poverty. “This suggests that the children of immigrants are continuing to assimilate over time as they have in past generations,” said Elizabeth M. Grieco, chief of the bureau’s Foreign-Born Population Branch.

Topics: Citizenship, Civic Life, Founding American Values, Immigrant Integration, Immigrants