Children of Immigrants Are America's Future—and Right Now We're Failing Them

Children of Immigrants Are America's Future—and Right Now We're Failing Them

Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Immigrants and Education, Fraud, Robots Make Pizza

Episode: Immigrants and Education, Fraud, Robots Make Pizza

  • Jun 29, 2017 11:00 pm
  • 50:53 mins

Guest: Daniel Connolly, Reporter, "The Commercial Appeal" newspaper in Memphis, Author of “The Book of Isaias: A Child of Hispanic Immigrants Seeks His Own America”  Nearly one in four kids in America has at least one immigrant parent. Among them, Hispanics make up the largest group. Many have parents who came to the US illegally or overstayed a visa. In some cases, the children, themselves, are without legal status in the US.  President Trump is still considering whether or not to end the Obama-era policy that gives work permits and protection from deportation to people who were brought to the country illegally as children.  But in focusing almost solely on the legal status of immigrants in America, reporter Daniel Connolly says we’ve left their children to flounder. And given their numbers, we need them to succeed. See the book here.