Jun
20
During a press conference Saturday, Sen. McCain blamed undocumented immigrants for the devastating wildfires sweeping through Arizona and southern states, suggesting they started fires to “divert law enforcement agents.” While a U.S. Forest Service official stated there is no evidence suggesting undocumented immigrants are to blame, Sen. McCain, like many restrictionists, took the opportunity to …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/06/20/sen-mccain-blames-unauthorized-immigrants-for-arizona-wildfires/
Jun
17
In a report released late last month, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) rehashes a number of tired, discredited arguments about the impact of immigration on wages and job opportunities for native-born workers. The report, entitled Poverty and Low-Wage Earners, tries to discount the findings of numerous studies in recent years which have found …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/06/17/nativist-group-recycles-discredited-economic-arguments-about-immigration/
Jun
09
A new report released by the Brookings Institution dispels the myth that all immigrants are unskilled, uneducated, and illegal. The report, entitled The Geography of Immigrant Skills: Educational Profiles of Metropolitan Areas, finds that the share of working-age immigrants in the United States who have at least a bachelor’s degree is greater than the share …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/06/09/more-immigrants-are-educated-skilled-than-ever-before-report-finds/
Apr
19
Sadly, myth and misinformation continue to be a major part of the immigration debate. One of the biggest myths perpetuated by restrictionist groups is that the roughly 12 million unauthorized immigrants currently living in the U.S. use a variety of public services yet paying nothing in taxes. Hard data recently released by the Institute for …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/04/19/filed-under-%e2%80%9cm%e2%80%9d-for-%e2%80%9cmyth-busted%e2%80%9d-unauthorized-immigrants-pay-taxes-too/
Apr
05
The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) released another report today attempting to blame our economic woes and budget shortfalls on immigrants—this time using the children of immigrants, most of whom are U.S. citizens, as scapegoats for benefits usage (here Medicaid, food assistance, cash assistance, and housing programs). As are most restrictionists’ attempts to blame immigrants …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/04/05/restrictionist-group-blames-the-children-of-immigrants-for-america%e2%80%99s-budget-woes/
Mar
16
Sometimes it’s easy to miss the most outlandish and unrealistic statements made in the immigration debate given the level of dialed up rhetoric. A recent report from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), however, appears to have been written to test just how far into the realm of fantasy the debate can be taken. In …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/03/16/report-on-birthright-citizenship-low-on-facts-high-on-fantasy/
Mar
02
The anti-immigrant movement’s current motto could be “Desperate times call for desperate measures.” As evidence mounts that the demographic makeup of the country is changing, the current crop of immigration restrictionists know that they are gradually losing their committed base. Thus, they are pulling out every trick in the book to motivate that base to …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/03/02/the-wrong-side-of-history-why-the-anti-immigrant-movement-will-always-lose/
Mar
01
Nativists are fond of grandstanding over the plight of minority workers in the United States. While not particularly concerned with civil-rights issues, anti-immigrant activists are quick to cast themselves as defenders of the downtrodden when they blame immigrants for the high unemployment rates and low wages that are all too common among minorities. For instance, …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/03/01/immigrants-are-not-the-cause-of-minority-unemployment-and-low-wages/
Jan
20
In response to a recent Roll Call article calling out the nativist lobby, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Lamar Smith wrote a letter to the editor making a series of claims—many of which he’s been making for the last 20 years—which simply don’t stack up to the facts. These myths also conveniently obsure the lack …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/01/20/dear-mr-smith-your-pants-are-on-fire-sincerely-the-facts/
Aug
26
The Republican Party primaries in Arizona may be over, but the anti-immigrant demagoguery upon which the winning candidates built their campaigns is unlikely to fade away anytime soon. Governor Jan Brewer and Senator John McCain both managed to reverse their declining political fortunes in large part by raising the phantom specter of immigrant violence—a cynical …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/08/26/anti-immigrant-hysteria-in-arizona-won%e2%80%99t-end-with-the-primaries/
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