Empirical Data on Immigration

This chapter presents empirical data to address the range of allegations against undocumented immigrants; for example, they drain the national economy. The data come from various sources, including the federal government, conservative think tanks, and leading immigrant rights advocacy groups. These studies document the effects of recent immigration and refute the claims of the xenophobes like “Mexican immigration is an invasion of the United States” or that undocumented immigration is causing a crime wave across the country. Based on the evidence, it argues that the rhetoric against illegal immigrants is not only unsupported by the facts, but also contrary to logic.

Criminology · Demographic economics · Development economics · Economics · Empirical evidence · Empirical research · Government (linguistics) · Immigration · Immigration law · Immigration policy · Immigration reform · Political economy · Political science · Rhetoric · Sociology · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration