That is the topic of free latest Free Press column, here is one excerpt:

The good news is that African immigrants already have done well in the United States. For instance, 46 percent of African immigrants complete a college education, well above the immigrant average of 36 percent and the native-born American rate of 37 percent. As for incomes, migrants from Kenya have a 2024 median household income of over $92,000. Those from Cameroon have a median household income of over $91,000. Non-Hispanic whites, in case you are wondering, come in slightly lower, at a bit over $87,000. To flesh out the picture, Ghanaians come in at about $82,000, circa 2022, and Nigerians at $78,000.

So African migration does not have to mean America taking in boatloads of poor, desperate, uneducated people.

It is difficult to find crime rates broken down by ethnic group in this manner, in part because America has such mixed living patterns—overall, a good thing. Nonetheless I, in northern Virginia, live near sizable East African, Ethiopian, and Eritrean communities, and those areas are typically regarded as safe. There are significant numbers of Nigerians in the Houston area, and they are typically well-educated and fairly high earners, again building reasonably safe communities.

Those good results do not come automatically. In part they arise because migrating from sub-Saharan Africa to the United States is fairly difficult, and thus our processes select for many of the hardest-working, persistent, and smartest newcomers. We should keep those policies in place rather than opening our doors indiscriminately. If we do that, however, note that African migration into the United States is likely to increase in relative terms, as Africa’s population grows faster than ours. Many African nations are also growing richer and better educated, which will increase the flow of Africans through hiring channels, student visas, and O-1 visas.

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