In opposing President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans, there is a notion going around that, actually, an immigrant influx is the way to bring the United States back to prosperity. The New York Times has editorialized as much — but misses that the family is at the center of most immigrant communities.
The outlet has the idea that, one, deportation is plain wrong, and two, immigration is the last hope for our fertility crisis.
Certainly, immigrants have the family aspect down more than the average American family: Intergenerational housing, cultural networks, multifamily communities, and other family-oriented traditions make the case for them. Sociologist Brad Wilcox notes in his book Get Married that Asian Americans have the most stable families, largely because of an Eastern “family-first orientation.”
However, the New York Times editorial fails to…
