Source: Media Matters | Solange Uwimana
Conservative media outlets are attacking Vice President Joe Biden over his recent statement that he believes undocumented immigrants are "already Americans" and they "are just waiting, waiting for a chance to be able to contribute fully." This sentiment is hardly controversial since, as the Pew Research Center notes, nearly two-thirds of undocumented immigrants have lived in the country for at least a decade, and for many, the United States is the only home they have ever known...
Jim Wallis, the president and founder of Sojourners, reiterated that fact in a Time.com op-ed, writing: "Young people, who came here as children, live as 'illegals' in the only country they have ever known as home."