Senator Jeff Sessions' confirmation hearings for the Attorney General position have centered on race relations and immigration reform. However, the actual research on the economic impact of undocumented immigration is in fact the opposite of what the senator has repeatedly claimed. Measuring the Economic Benefits of Immigration Reform," CATO Institute, Center for Trade Policy Studies, no. Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda, "Raising the Floor for American Workers: The Economic Benefits of Comprehensive Immigration Reform," (Immigration Policy Center, Center for American Progress, January 2010), http://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/immigrationeconreport3.pdf; at p. 1. Measuring the Economic Benefits of Immigration Reform," CATO Institute, Center for Trade Policy Studies, no.

Source: Huffington Post January 18, 2017 00:03 UTC