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Article: Determining the costs of undocumented immigrants to the U.S.: Jeffrey Passell: Senior Research Associate, The Pew Hispanic Center: at the heart of the immigration debate there is a two part question: how many illegal immigrants live in the United States today? And what do undocumented immigrants cost federal, state and local governments each year?(THE EXPERT DEMOGRAPHER)
- Article from:
- Latino Leaders
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
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How these questions are answered, who chooses to answer what questions, their point of view and maybe a selective use of facts and assumptions has and will continue to shape the debate, legislation and immigration reform laws far into the future.
Estimates of the fiscal impact from illegal immigration cannot be projected beginning with an agreement on a baseline number of undocumented immigrants in this country. Today, them is a reasonable agreement that between 11 and 12 million illegal immigrants live in the U.S., with the undocumented population growing by about 500,000 people every year.
Demographers develop answers for the first question. They study ...