Illegal immigration: the myths and the factsJoe R. Davenport
As President Barack Obama eloquently stated during a "town hall meeting" in 2009 when asked about the issue of illegal immigration and immigration reform: "Laws must be binding; rules must be followed; words must mean something."Slogans and rhetoric, however, are not policies. They are not ...
About 15 years ago, Canada had a nursing shortage, so the government said if a person has a nursing degree, they move to the top of the list to get in, Smith said. What needs to happen now is a change in the rhetoric, he said. There’s been so much talk about illegal immigration...
Mr. Trump made numerous outrageous statements and he deeply misrepresented many economic and political facts. I would like to examine what he said about immigration because this is not only a critical issue for American voters (especially Republicans) but also because it is one whose impact is f...
aIllegal immigration that has emerged in some parts of the world has proven being a curse to the nations' economy and their social welfare. 在世界的有些地区涌现了的非法移民证明了是诅咒到国家的经济和他们的社会保障。[translate]
At the heart of the debate over illegal immigration lies one key question: are immigrants good or bad for the economy? The American public overwhelmingly thinks they’re bad. Yet the agreement among most economists is that immigration both legal and illegal provides a small net boost to the ec...
There are some legitimate questions about Harris' work on immigration. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, most non-Mexican migration to the U.S. southern border originated from the Northern Triangle. In 2021, it made sense for the administration to focus on the root cases of migration in those ...
Until the late 19th century, there wasn’t any such thing as “illegal” or “legal” immigration to the United States. That’s because before you can immigrate somewhere illegally, there has to be a law for you to break. American immigration didn’t really begin until the late 1700s, ...
llegal Immigration. The Real Impact of Illegal Immigration.The Real Impact of Illegal Immigration.The article presents an interview with Dennis Jacobe, Gallup's chief economist. He explains the real effects of illegal immigration on the U.S. economy. He claims that the beneficiaries from illegal ...
23% in private household employment, and 28% in landscaping. In addition to what these data tell us about living standards among the undocumented, they highlight a particularly difficult aspect of the nation's illegal-immigration challenge: Important sectors of the U.S. economy have become depend...