"Dreamers", in more complex homes than legal immigrants, according to a study

Undocumented immigrants who were brought into the country as children and who are commonly called the "dreamers" live in homes that are more complex and less stable than their contemporaries born in the country or having a legal status, said a study presented today.

The research, conducted by the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University, New York, has compared the composition, size and stability of residences of undocumented immigrants with those listedas well as Hispanic groups born in the United States.

According to Matthew Hall, badociate professor in the Cornell Department of Policy Analysis and Policy Administration and co-author of the research, "dreamers" are "much more likely to live with extended family and non-family members".

According to figures revealed by the study, undocumented Latinos who live in the country since the age of 15 are "much less likely"(47%) live with a partner and with children that their peers who have come legally to the country (55%) or family members who are Latinos born in the United States (52%), or that Non Hispanic whites (62%).

The researchers used information from the Income and Participation Survey for the years 1996, 2001, 2004 and 2008, which allowed them to obtain a lot of information about Latino immigrants, including its legal status and measures of relations between household members.

Undocumented, 25% share the house with aunts, uncles, nephews, cousins ​​and other relatives farther away, compared to 12% documented Latinos and 3% non-Hispanic whites.

"Our work helps to increase the literature on life opportunities for undocumented immigrants"added Kelly Musick, a professor in the same Cornell department and co-author of the study.

According to Musick, the survey shows "the precariousness and instability badociated with the lack of authorization, have consequences not only on the results in terms of education and manpowerbut also increases the complexity and instability of living conditions. "

To USA, over 800,000 undocumented people are covered by Deferred Action for Child Arrivals (DACA), a program that gives these immigrants access to a work permit, social security number, driving license and in many cases arrested the latest expulsion orders.

The President, Donald Trump, he promised in his campaign that in the first hundred days of his term, he would cancel the decrees of President Barack Obama, among which there is one of the most important that protects the "dreamers" and which was promulgated in 2012.

The situation of the beneficiaries of the DACA is in danger after the president Trump announced the end of this program in 2017, which could result in the expulsion of thousands of undocumented youth..

This order was however stopped in January 2018 by a California judge., which ordered the government to accept renewal applications while badessing five lawsuits against it.

The President asked for a legislative out of Congress for the "dreamers", although marking red lines that the Democrats could hardly accept, as a fund to build a wall on the Mexican border and end immigration for the reunification of families.

With information from EFEUSA