Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Behind the Pew Study on Illegal Immigration, Part III: Estimating Illegal Immigration - The Basic Model and Its Limitations | Center for Immigration Studies
The recent Pew report on the decline of the illegal population in the United States has created a lot of buzz. Does anyone really know how many illegals reside in the United States? . . .
Behind the Pew Study on Illegal Immigration, Part III: Estimating Illegal Immigration - The Basic Model and Its Limitations | Center for Immigration Studies
- "What is the real number of illegal immigrants in the United States and how much has the population of illegal immigrants been reduced in the last few years for whatever reason?
The truthful answer is that no one can say for sure, and the numbers that are taken as authoritative may be, but are themselves sample estimates recalculated on the basis of further estimates which have added to them estimates of factors that effect them for which there are no actual numbers of any kind.
Caveat perscriptor.
Behind the Pew Study on Illegal Immigration, Part III: Estimating Illegal Immigration - The Basic Model and Its Limitations | Center for Immigration Studies
# posted by Norma : 9/08/2010 06:50:00 PM
