Experts Slam Report Claiming Undocumented Are Leaving America

A report released in Washington this week by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) titled Homeward Bound: Recent Immigration Enforcement and the Decline in the Illegal Alien Population claims the undocumented population in the United States has declined significantly.

Using the Current Population Survey by the Census Bureau as the quantitative basis for their report, CIS notes that “since hitting a peak in the summer of 2007, the illegal population may have declined by 11 percent through May of 2008.”

This data leads them to conclude that “it seems that increased enforcement is at least partly responsible for this decline.”

However, Stephen Buckner, a spokesman for the US Census responded to this report by saying: “The Census Bureau does not produce estimates or counts of illegal immigrants living in the United States.”

Additionally, the Immigration Policy Center (IPC) took issue with the report. “The persuasiveness of CIS’ argument is undermined not only by an absence of hard data, but by the faulty logic and contradictory statements of the report itself” and added “the authors report confidently about a population that is nearly impossible to accurately measure.”

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Experts Slam Report Claiming Undocumented Are Leaving America
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