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Read the text “Immigrant kids more likely to attain American Dream than U.S.-born peers” Answer the questions after the text.
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Account for the reasons why immigrant kids are more likely to attain the American dream than U.S.-born kids.
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Children of immigrants are just as likely today to get ahead in the U.S. as those a century ago, when most immigrants came from Italy, Ireland and other European countries, according to new economic research.
Today's immigrant youth are also more likely to achieve the American Dream than their U.S.-born peers, the study found.
The findings come as the Trump administration seeks to restrict immigration, including when immigrants' relatives are allowed into the U.S. and use the visa lottery.
President Donald Trump also wants to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and has proposed new rules such as denying visas to immigrants who can't prove they can pay for health care.
The study tapped a century of Census and economic data to compare three major waves of immigration to the U.S.:
• The first group of immigrants came from Northern European countries such as Ireland and Germany around 1880, as was the case with Donald Trump's grandfather, Friedrich Trump, who immigrated from Germany in 1885.
• The second wave came in the early 20th century when immigrants flowed from Southern and Eastern European countries, such as Italy.
• The third wave came to the U.S. around 1980, mostly from poorer countries in Latin America and Asia, which the economists say represent the contemporaries of the "Dreamers"
- the undocumented young adults who came to the U.S. as children and are now seeking U.S. citizenship. (...)
"No matter when their parents came to the U.S. or what country they came from, children of immigrants have higher rates of upward mobility than their U.S.-born peers,"
Ran Abramitzky of Stanford University and Leah Boustan of Princeton University wrote in a blog post. "What's more, their rates of mobility today are strikingly similar to rates of mobility in the past."
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Immigrants also tend to settle in regions around the country that offer more opportunities to rise, the researchers noted. Southern states today have among the lowest rates of economic mobility in the U.S., according to economist Raj Chetty.
Another factor that may explain why the children of immigrants often enjoy more success: speaking English.
While many immigrant dads were stymied from moving up because of language barriers and a lack of professional contacts
for instance, their culturally assimilated offspring were better equipped to acquire the kind of skills, including mastering English, that increase the odds of success.
Some immigrant parents likely had higher skills than they used in their jobs due to a language barrier, the researchers noted. But those skills could be passed onto their children.
"What we have in mind here is the classic story of Russian engineers (for example) who end up working as taxi drivers when they arrive in the US," Boustan said in an email to CBS MoneyWatch.
"Yet, they may have other abilities or skills that they can pass on to their children, allowing their kids (who are raised in the US and are native English speakers) to rise up the ladder."
"Our research suggests that politicians crafting immigration policy shouldn't be so short-sighted," the researchers said.
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