There are 16 million children in immigrant families in the United States, one of the fastest-growing segments of the population. It¹s an old American story made new in the age of globalization, when waves of human displacement- in recent decades have led to immigration on a scale not seen since Ellis Island. But a country that has been so good for so long at integrating new Americans is stumbling under the challenge.
… This is the great challenge that is forgotten in the heat of the immigration debate. The children of immigrants are Americans.”