Experts worry about the children of today's immigrants because many of them come from, what are by U.S. standards, poor households. Low-skilled immigrants in the United States are mostly Hispanic, and statistics suggest that although they are hard working and honest, many of them never finish the equivalent of high school. They typically speak limited English, and in their lifetimes, they will not reach average U.S. income levels. ; The question then remains: If the first generation in this class of immigrants does not fully assimilate, will the second and third generations still be able to follow their European predecessors and move into the middle-income mainstream? Or will succeeding generations become part of a multiethnic underclass?
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Article provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas in its journal In Depth.