Are millennials lazy? Unmotivated? Entitled?

Ask employers running both big and small businesses about the work ethic of employees ages 18-34, and the answer is often “Yes!”

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According to a new survey by Mobile Iron, 60 percent of millennial workers say that if their bosses prohibit personal smartphone use during the work day, they’d rather quit than comply. This generation, more than any other, has grown up with a cellphone or tablet at the ready, and it seems many are not about to allow that three letter word “J-O-B” to get in the way.

Yet rather than painting all millennials as underachievers, it’s probably more helpful to showcase those millennials who get it. It is they, and not the over-hyped celebrities, who should be held up as role models.

Enter Rebecca, age 25, from Southern California. Her mother is a legal immigrant from Guatemala, who once here immersed herself in American history and culture. She taught her children the American work ethic, our traditions and values. This is immigration done the right way.

Listen to Rebecca, who called into my radio show today, and pray that there are a lot more like her out there: