Citizen Gain: The Economic Benefits of Naturalization for Immigrants and the Economy (click to view report)

One of the many consequences of an aggressive immigration enforcement system is the separation of children, often U.S. citizens, from their unauthorized immigrant parents. U.S. immigration policies often fail to address the needs of millions of children whom they directly impact. According to the Pew Hispanic Center, approximately 5.5 million children in the United States live in mixed-legal status families with at least one parent who is an unauthorized immigrant. These children are at risk of being separated from a parent at any time.

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Authors Gary Painter and Zhou Yu discuss demographic shifts of immigrants in metropolitan and rural areas that have experienced the depths of the recession. Using 2006 and 2009 American Community Survey microdata, Caught in the Housing Bubble: Immigrants' housing outcomes in traditional gateways and newly emerging destinations assesses how the recent economic crisis has affected immigrants with respect to three housing outcomes (residential mobility, homeownership, and household formation) to compare housing outcomes at two important time points in the recent economic cycle.

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"College-Educated Immigrants in the United States" (click to view)

Contrary to a widely held view, immigrants in the United States have an expansive range of education levels with about one in three immigrants having obtained a college degree.  

Unauthorized Aliens Residing in the United States: Estimates Since 1986 (click to view)