OCTOBER 8, 2015 U.S. Politics & Policy 60% of Public Opposes Ending ‘Birthright Citizenship’ As immigration emerges as a key issue in the presidential campaign, there is little common ground between Republicans and Democrats in […]
SEPTEMBER 28, 2015 Hispanic Trends The Profile of Today’s Newly Arrived Is Markedly Different than that of New Arrivals in Previous Decades The rewrite of the nation’s immigration policy in 1965 opened the door to […]
SEPTEMBER 28, 2015 Hispanic Trends For the U.S. Public, Views of Immigrants and Their Impact on U.S. Society Are Mixed For its part, the American public has mixed views on the impact immigrants have had […]
SEPTEMBER 28, 2015 Hispanic Trends Immigration since 1965 has swelled the nation’s foreign-born population from 9.6 million then to a record 45 million in 2015.1 (The current immigrant population is lower than the 59 million total […]
Hispanic Trends SEPTEMBER 28, 2015 U.S. Foreign-Born Share Projected to Hit Record Milestone by 2065 Views of Immigration’s Impact on U.S. Society Mixed Fifty years after passage of the landmark law that rewrote U.S. immigration […]
SEPTEMBER 11, 2015 Number of babies born in U.S. to unauthorized immigrants declines BY JEFFREY S. PASSEL AND D’VERA COHN About 295,000 babies were born to unauthorized-immigrant parents in 2013, making up 8% of the 3.9 million U.S. […]
AUGUST 24, 2015 What Americans want to do about illegal immigration BY SARA KEHAULANI GOO U.S.-Mexico Border A gap in the fence near the U.S.-Mexico border overlooking Tijuana, Mexico, in 2014. (Photo by Charles Ommanney/Reportage by […]
Democracies that trade substance for charisma don’t last. Trump is America’s answer to Hugo Chávez. ENLARGE Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Mobile, Ala., Aug 21. PHOTO: MARK WALLHEISER/GETTY IMAGES By BRET STEPHENS Aug. 31, 2015 7:34 […]
BY SARA KEHAULANI GOO The debate over the future of the nation’s estimated 11.3 million unauthorized immigrants is on the political front burner once more. President Barack Obama set the stage in November when he announced new […]
By L.J. Zigerell August 25 A recent Monkey Cage post by Patrick J. Egan claimed that the Republican Party is hurt by Donald Trump’s immigration policies. But the post presented polling data only on the […]