Posted on 04/19/2018 10:13:13 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Study: Nearly 1 in 4 children has at least one immigrant parent
By John Bowden - 04/18/18 03:32 PM EDT
One in 4 children living in the U.S. in 2016 had at least one parent who was born outside the U.S., according to a study released Wednesday.
A Kaiser Family Foundation survey found that about 20 million children living in the U.S. in 2016, or about 23 percent, had at least one parent who immigrated to the U.S. Most of those children, 89 percent, are citizens of the U.S. themselves, the study adds.
More half of those children live in just four states: California (23 percent), Texas (13 percent), New York (8 percent) and Florida (8 percent), according to the study.
A common theme for families with at least one immigrant parent is the family looking for affordable health care, the survey shows.
About 8 million of the roughly 20 million children living with an immigrant parent were covered under either Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
The study states that cuts to CHIP or Medicaid would "increase the uninsured rate among immigrant families, negatively affecting the financial stability of families and the growth and healthy development of their children."
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
You didn’t beat me. My parents are also legal immigrants as well as my in-laws. My kids are first generation Americans. My wife and family actually moved back to the old country for a few years and then immigrated back to the U.S.
South Africa, Your origin?
A kid on Art Linkletter’s “House Party” program told him that he was one of four children, but their family would never have a fifth child, because every fifth child in the world was Chinese, and they didn’t want one.
>>Legal or illegal?
Funny how they never bother to mention that little detail.<<
Exactly. Guess they’re not going to tell us what percentage of children have one parent or both parents who are ILLEGAL immigrants.
Ireland and Canada
Words mean things. It is not the same thing to wait for 5 years in Togo for a visa and then legally bring your family, or to steal your way across the border. WE NEED TO CALL THEM ON THIS EVERY TIME THEY CALL ILLEGALS ‘IMMIGRANTS.’
Among the few mail-order brides I’ve known, there are few children (usually none of just one - as added protection against deportation/removal and a means to keep the money rolling in from the American husband if the relationship goes south). On the other hand, I know plenty of people here legally (came as children decades ago) who are married with multiple children - and they’d fit this description.
Could you imagine the fawning of the media if there was a Democrat president in the White House with an immigrant wife? Won’t happen with Melania, because she’s married to a Republican and is too much prettier than the “second Jackie O”, Barak Obama’s husband Michael.
Sexton Single Malt in a shot glass and a pint of Moose Head.
A boilermaker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9EV608LuuI
You didn’t know you were this cool did you? ;-)
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