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Originally posted at the Reform Immigration For America Blog
This week, former commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Services (now USCIS) wrote the latest in the “5 myths” column for the Washington Post. Doris Meissner, a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute, served as commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service from 1993 to 2000, and therefore knows better than most exactly how immigration in our country works.
The top 5 myths about immigration that she debunks are as follows:
1.Immigrants take jobs from American workers. (Not true. It’s not a zero-sum game here, people.)
2.Immigration is at an all-time high, and most new immigrants came illegally. (The all-time high was over 100 years ago.)
This week, former commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Services (now USCIS) wrote the latest in the “5 myths” column for the Washington Post. Doris Meissner, a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute, served as commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service from 1993 to 2000, and therefore knows better than most exactly how immigration in our country works.
The top 5 myths about immigration that she debunks are as follows:
1.Immigrants take jobs from American workers. (Not true. It’s not a zero-sum game here, people.)
2.Immigration is at an all-time high, and most new immigrants came illegally. (The all-time high was over 100 years ago.)
