But the question is - are we deporting a couple hundred people for show or are we actually making a serious effort to remove everybody who's got a fi….
And they are much more skeptical of the very idea of having immigration limits, whereas the public - again, independents and Democrats, as well as Re….
The effects of illegal immigration aren't that different from those of legal immigration —an illiterate Central American farmer with a green card is ….
Well, nobody's being deported - nobody - practically. And so what the people down there getting is the American government is telling us that you're ….
Well, enforcement theater is OK if it's reality theater. In other words, obviously, you want to make it clear, you want to make people see that the l….
The interesting point is that the polarization is not so much among the public, although there's some of that. The polarization on the immigration is….
Well, because we're talking here about people who've been ordered deported and the administration has done nothing about actually making sure that th….
By holding down natural wage growth in labor-intensive industries, immigration serves as a subsidy for low-wage, low-productivity ways of doing busin….
But it's more an up-versus-down issue because the research has shown that opinion leaders, whether they're elected officials, journalists, business l….
Assimilation is really a psychological process where you come to identify with a new country as yours. The ease of overseas travel and information ac….
In enforcement, you always have to have both a focus on the really worst actors - you know, gang bangers, in this case, drug dealers, that sort of th….
But the other audience, I think, is people in Central America because since last summer, they've been running ads down there - the United States gove….
Of 472 civilian occupations defined by the Department of Commerce, only six are majority immigrant (legal and illegal). These six occupations account….
There's definitely a huge gap between the elite and public perceptions on immigration..