By Ed Diokno
I thought this editorial from the Washington Post is worth sharing because a lot of the fear-mongering on immigration is sheer political poppycock from presidential candidates hoping their supporters don’t do any research on the issue.
If any further study is performed, it would be found that the largest group coming to the U.S. since 2012 is Asian immigrants, surpassing the numbers coming from Latin America.
Asians are expected to constitute 36% of the immigrant population by 2055, surpassing Latinos, who by then will be 34% of immigrants.
However, unlike immigrants from Latin America, who share a common language, immigrants from Asia come from a myriad host of countries with their own languages and cultures.
Those political candidates stirring up the anti-immigrant fervor by labeling them rapists and drug dealers and talk about building walls need to catch up with the facts. They have been living in the past too long.
(Ed Diokno writes a blog :Views From The Edge: news and analysis from an Asian American perspective.)
