Study says new 'unauthorized immigrants' have more high school, college education

WorldNetDaily:

Contrary to the stereotype of undocumented migrants as single males with very little education who perform manual labor in agriculture or construction, the Pew Hispanic Center report shows that most of the illegal population lives in families, a quarter has at least some college education and that illegal workers can be found in many sectors of the U.S. economy.

"Not all of the unauthorized population fits the stereotype of a poorly educated manual laborer," demographer Jeffrey Passel, the report's author, said.

One of the key findings of the report is that the most recent illegals have a higher education level than those who have been in America for at least a decade.

"The share who lack a high school degree is lower among those who have been in the United States for 10 years or less than among those of longer tenure – 45 percent vs. 56 percent – and the share with some college education is higher – 19 percent vs. 10 percent," according to the report.

But overall, "unauthorized migrants," as Pew calls them, are less educated than other sectors of the American population with 49 percent having not completed high school, compared with 9 percent of the native-born and 25 percent of legal immigrants.

In other words, Mexico is so badly run that even better educated people can't find jobs there.