Immigration

Questions Discussed:

What was your or your families immigration experience?
What is DACA? How does it help?
How could the immigration process be improved?
Immigration under the Trump administration vs now
What are the "push and pull" factors of immigration?

Eshq Salem - Immigration

Research by Eshq Salem

Salma Baksh - Immigration

Research by Salma Baksh

Key findings about U.S. immigrantsToday, more than 40 million people living in the U.S. were born in another country, accounting for about one-fifth of the world’s migrants.

New Research on Illegal Immigration and CrimeThere is more and more evidence that immigrants, regardless of legal status, are less likely to commit crimes than native‐born Americans. As more evidence builds over time, we can only hope than Americans respond by updating their opinions so that they fit the facts.

Immigration, Crime, and Incarceration in Early Twentieth-Century AmericaThe major government commissions on immigration and crime in the early twentieth century relied on evidence that suffered from aggregation bias and the absence of accurate population data, which led them to present partial and sometimes misleading views ...

Referenced:

They Take Our Jobs!: And 20 Other Myths about Immigration by Aviva Chomsky

Aviva Chomsky is a professor of history and coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State University. In this book, Chomsky outlines myths used as arguments against immigration, pooling them into categories (social, economic).

Since this book was written in 2007, researchers took it with a grain of salt. The index was heavily used and all statistics mentioned during the meeting were checked to be true as of 2023.

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