By the Numbers

Commenting on the President’s characterization of Third World countries from which stream many legal and illegal immigrants into the U.S., Dennis Prager writes for RealClearPolitics the following:

According to data from the Center for Immigration Studies, 73 percent of households headed by Central American and Mexican immigrants use one or more welfare programs, as do 51 percent of Caribbean immigrants and 48 percent of African immigrants. Contrast that with 32 percent of East Asians and 26 percent of Europeans.

Making Europeans and Asians the best bets as productive immigrants. And even there we should be more selective than we’ve been.

End chain migration, deport visa overstayers and build that wall, Mr. President.