Effects of Immigration From Impoverished Nations
…Per the 2006 academic encyclopedia Immigration in America Today: The liberalization of immigration policy following the 1965 Immigration and Naturalization Act dramatically changed the immigrant composition in America. … Whereas…
Read moreMajor Media Stories Ignore Immigration Status of High-Profile Murderer
By James D. Agresti May 7, 2019 Amidst an intense national debate over illegal immigration and crime, major media outlets are reporting on a grisly, high-profile murder while failing to…
Read moreIllegal Immigrants Are Far More Likely to Commit Serious Crimes Than the U.S. Public
…technique called a “regression” to control for factors besides immigration that could affect crime rates. Based on this, they find that “undocumented immigration over this period is generally associated with…
Read moreWhite House Pledge on Deportations Belied by Official Data and Actions
…odds with data recently provided by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official at a Congressional hearing. While testifying before the House Judiciary Committee on June 25th, Tom Homan, ICE’s…
Read moreThe New York Times Regularly Publishes Falsehoods That Spur Violent Unrest and Civic Dysfunction
…the academic book Debates on U.S. Immigration, federal law, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Distorting Science According to the New York Times: Global warming has caused “an intensification of…
Read moreSubstantial Numbers of Non-Citizens Vote Illegally in U.S. Elections
…Immigration Statistics. The study found that certain major groups of immigrants—including Mexican men of all ages, Mexican women aged 40 and older, and immigrants who have been in the U.S….
Read moreBernie Sanders’ Education Plan is Rife With Deceit
…condemns is not caused by racism that he says is rampant but by immigration policies endorsed by the Democratic Party. These include increasing levels of legal immigration, allowing illegal immigrants…
Read moreThe School Segregation Farce
…legal immigration, allowing illegal immigrants to stay in the U.S., and incentivizing low-income foreigners to immigrate by supplying welfare benefits “regardless of immigration status.” Due to such policies, more than…
Read moreIllegal Immigrants and Federal Income Taxes
…illegal immigration is often covert, reliable data on it is scarce. In the words of the Congressional Budget Office, figures for the number of illegal immigrants in the U.S. “are…
Read moreIs President Trump’s Border Wall an Outdated, Ineffective Strategy?
…caused by factors other than the fencing, such as increased border patrols or fluctuating immigration levels. However, as documented below, similar reductions in cross-border crimes have occurred in other nations…
Read moreVisa Overstays Don’t Negate the Benefits of Border Barriers
…executive director of the National Immigration Forum Sally Kohn, CNN Political Commentator Amanda Seitz and Will Weissert, fact checkers for the Associated Press Robert Warren and Donald Kerwin of the…
Read morePolitiFact’s Deceptive Report on Illegal Voting by Non-Citizens
…annual arrest rate. Moreover, just before the 2016 election, Barack Obama stated in an interview with actress Gina Rodriguez that voting records are not cross-checked against immigration databases and “there…
Read moreFalse Arguments Against Evidence of Vote Fraud
…incentive to lie about their immigration status to avoid expulsion from the U.S. a 2013 study published in the journal Demographic Research found that certain non-citizens—including Mexican men of all…
Read more2017: The Year in Facts and Falsehoods
…courts, prisons, and immigration enforcement 5% on economic affairs, like transportation, labor affairs, agriculture, natural resources, energy, and space Fact #3: At the current drug overdose death rate, one in…
Read moreThe Washington Post Grossly Understates the Crime Rate of Illegal Immigrants
…Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo, and Meg Kelly of the Post contend that Trump “exaggerates the link between immigration and crime.” As proof of this, they write that “almost all research…
Read moreLack of Assimilation is Economically Harming Latino Immigrants and Society
…and should be a “salad bowl” in which people mix but remain culturally distinct. The editors of the academic serial work American Immigration: An Encyclopedia of Political, Social, and Cultural…
Read moreBorder Crossing Deaths Skyrocket, While Biden Administration Hides the Data
By James D. Agresti November 7, 2022 Border security is a life-or-death issue with many implications. Beyond the economic and electoral effects of illegal immigration, violent criminals and highly lethal…
Read moreDonald Trump and the Media Agree on Middle-Class Income, and They are Both Wrong
…policies that have contributed to these outcomes. This includes but is not limited to increasing the national debt, propagating regulations, and fostering immigration of low-skilled populations into the United States….
Read moreThe Effects of Regulations on the Economy
…immigration of low-skilled workers. government debt that diverts money away from capital investments. Nonetheless, clear and abundant data show that regulations may have harmed the U.S. economy, which means that…
Read moreRape Facts and Falsehoods
…Research, which compared Census Bureau survey data on citizenship to the number of naturalized citizens recorded by the U.S. Office of Immigration Statistics. The study found that certain groups of…
Read moreWidespread Poverty Stats Greatly Overstate the Number of Americans Who Are Destitute
…to such a facility and requests care for an emergency medical condition or childbirth, regardless of their ability to pay and immigration status. Private charities provide additional benefits to low-income…
Read moreAOC’s Baseless Accusation That the U.S. Is a “Brutal, Barbarian Society”
…a facility and requests care for an emergency medical condition or childbirth—regardless of their ability to pay and immigration status. In 2018, federal, state, and local governments provided an average…
Read moreQuantifying Illegal Votes Cast by Non-Citizens in the Battleground States of the 2020 Presidential Election
…has been laid bare by: a 2002 U.S. Government Accountability Office investigation that found: “the use of fraudulent documents by aliens is extensive.” in November 1998, immigration officials in Los…
Read moreMaximum Facts About the Minimum Wage
…care for an emergency medical condition or childbirth, regardless of their ability to pay and immigration status. All told, the poorest 20% of U.S. households consumed an average of $57,049…
Read moreThe Border Is Less Secure Than Ever, and the Implications Are Deadly
…provides a rough approximation for the relative scale of illegal entries over time. Per the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Immigration Statistics, the “count of migrant apprehensions serves as…
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When Hungary constructed a fence along its border with Croatia to prevent illegal immigration from the Middle East and Africa, by how much did illegal arrivals decline? In 2015, the…
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…illegally entering the U.S. in 2007 and being deported, a Honduran man named Celin Villeda-Orellan was caught crossing the U.S. border in 2008 but was released by immigration officials because…
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…acronym “Nazi”) includes “mother-and-child care,” “higher education” funding, stopping “any further immigration of non-Germans,” and privileges for “persons of German blood.” Just the opposite of lowering taxes on profits, the…
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…are considering illegal immigration react to tighter border security by taking more dangerous paths, others respond by choosing not to make the trip at all. The net effect of these…
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…such a facility and requests care for an emergency medical condition or childbirth, regardless of their ability to pay and immigration status. Such costs are ultimately borne by paying customers….
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…the country undetected during Mr. Biden’s term.” U.S. immigration law allows people who cross the border without permission to stay in the U.S. if they “have been persecuted or have…
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…who are considering illegal immigration react to tighter border security by taking more dangerous paths, others respond by choosing not to make the trip at all. The net effect of…
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Are voter rolls checked against immigration databases to ensure that only U.S. citizens vote in federal elections? Shortly before the 2016 U.S. presidential election, actress Gina Rodriguez interviewed President Obama…
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