Our love-hate relationship with foreign-born workers has once again taken center stage in the national drama over immigration, only now it’s set against a backdrop of heightened concerns over national security and an unprecedented geographic dispersal of the foreign-born. Legal as well as undocumented immigrants are widely blamed for displacing U.S. workers and driving down […]
Marta Tienda
Marta Tienda is a Maurice P. During '22 Professor in Demographic Studies and Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University, and visiting scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation. She chaired the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Hispanics and the American Future.
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Be Our Guest?
Immigrants are good for business. In fact, the rapid clip of U.S. economic growth might not be possible without them. Even as academics debate whether immigrants take jobs away from domestic workers, and as homegrown militias organize to patrol the nation’s southern border, hundreds of thousands of immigrants — more than half of them undocumented […]