Study Finds Children Of Illegal Immigrants Struggle With Social Development

The New York Times (9/21, A17, Preston, Subscription Publication, 950K) reports a study published in the Harvard Educational Review has found that children whose parents are illegal immigrants or are themselves undocumented face "uniformly negative" effects on their social development. The study, conducted by researchers at New York University and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, "concluded that more than five million children in the United States are 'at risk of lower educational performance, economic stagnation, blocked mobility and ambiguous belonging' because they are growing up in immigrant families affected by illegal status."