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Immigration Statistics and Trends

United States

Reference Books

• Working Americans, 1880-2007. Vol. VIII Immigrants HD8066 .D47 2008 v. 8 Encyclopedia of North American Immigration E184.A1 .P68 2005

Census Bureau

• Population Projections
• Families and Living Arrangements
• Population Projections
• State & County QuickFacts (“facts about people, business, and geography”)

CQ Researcher

• America's Border Fence (Sept. 2008)
• Immigration Debate (Feb. 2008)

Migration Policy Institute

• Harnessing the Advantages of Immigration for a 21st-Century Economy: A Standing Commission on Labor Markets, Economic Competitiveness and Immigration (May 2009)
• Immigrants and the Current Economic Crisis: Research Evidence, Policy Challenges, and Implications (Jan. 2009)

National Council of La Raza

• Five Facts About Undocumented Workers in the United States

Office of Homeland Security

• Immigration Statistics

Pew Hispanic Research Center

• Latino Children: A Majority are U.S.-Born Offspring of Immigrants (May 2009)
• Mexican Immigrants in the United States (Apr. 2009)
• A Portrait of Unauthorized Immigrants in the United States (Apr. 2009)
• Statistical Portrait of the Foreign-Born Population in the United States, 2007 (Mar. 2009)
• Latino Workers in the Ongoing Recession: 2007 to 2008 (Dec. 2008)

Indiana

STATS Indiana, population: Elkhart-Goshen, IN Metro Area

SB 345/HB 1219:  Economic and Demographic Impacts on Indiana: A Policy Brief, by Allert Brown-Gort and Juan Carlos Guzmán, Institute for Latino Studies University of Notre Dame, February 2008

Sagamore Insitute for Policy Research: Indiana Immigration and Workforce Patterns (June 2007)

"Economics of Illegal Immigration: Workers Add Perhaps $3.5 Billion to Our State's Economy Each Year," by Michael Hicks, Indiana Business Magazine, March 1, 2008.

Mennonite

Mexican Tour Focuses on Women, Migration (The Mennonite, June 2, 2009)
"For I Was a Stranger and You Invited Me In" (The Mennonite, June 16, 2009)