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Want Educated Immigrants? Let In More Africans
Highly skilled? Check. Hardworking? Check. English-speaking? Check. Ready to integrate? Check.
Oh, you’re from Ghana? Welcome!
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The uproar over White House Chief of Staff John Kelly’s comments about illegal immigration in an interview with National Public Radio last week still hasn’t entirely died down. I haven’t found the resulting discussion to be super-enlightening, so, as I did with an earlier Kelly comment about how nobody knows anybody in the military anymore, I decided to see if a few charts might clear things up.
To review, Kelly argued that most undocumented immigrants are “not people that would easily assimilate into the United States, into our modern society.” He went on: