Immigrants must assimilate. Immigrants must speak English. We’ve all heard those arguments made about the immigration issue. But what do those sentences really mean? Does assimilation mean speaking English and being Christian-centered? Or does assimilation mean believing in the ideal of a free and open democracy? Or, is it the economic belief that a free […]

In addition to the issue of jobs and taxes, the other argument made against immigration, and likely the most contentious, is the notion that immigration reduces the country’s security. This argument takes two major points of contention; one – that porous borders, especially the US-Mexico border, allows for a greater threat of terrorism in the […]

So far we have looked at state productivities and median household income. We also looked at the unemployment rates as well as the poverty rates for the states. Today, I am adding four other important metrics to our examination of the question of whether immigrants are beneficial or important to the US. Each of the […]

Today we start looking to see if we can answer the question of whether immigrants, both legal and undocumented, are taking jobs away from US citizens or keeping wages low. It is important to note that any attempt to correlate one, or two, data points to the immigration population will not prove one point over […]

(Note: This post was updated on December 2, 2016 at 07:39ET by adding a not about the ranking of Federal aid to states.) This project is about correlating the immigration populations in the United States as they relate to different economic and security metrics. Today I am sharing with you the final base map from […]