Immigrants make Californians healthier

What makes California the very picture of healthy living? It’s neither sunshine nor silicone implants.
Our health secret is actually immigration.
While the President and others falsely blame immigrants for being sources of disease (including smallpox, which was eradicated in 1980), Californians have long known that immigrants make us healthier.
And those health benefits go far beyond the so-called “immigrant health advantage,” the term for the research finding that new arrivals