. They dream of sending their children to college, and they also often invest in their community through church, school, and volunteer efforts. Many of them are doing more than dreaming of such things. One are where immigrants are adding to the economy is in the rate at which they are purchasing homes. According to a Harvard University study, “Immigrants have become a much stronger part of the American home-buying market than at any time in our history. Homeownership has doubled in the last decade among immigrants between the ages of 25 and 34—from 25 percent to almost 55 percent. Notably, homeownership has mushroomed among Hispanics by more than 50 percent since 1980 and has nearly doubled among Asians"”(Lambro 2).
Another persistent myth about immigrants is that they displace Americans from
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