People Leave Footprints: Millions More Unauthorized Immigrants Cannot Be ‘Hidden’ in Data Estimates

[rangerrebew]

People Leave Footprints: Millions More Unauthorized Immigrants Cannot Be ‘Hidden’ in Data Estimates
By Julia Gelatt, Michael Fix, and Jennifer Van Hook
 
Amid the current roiling political debate in the United States around immigration, and particularly illegal immigration, there is little doubt that an academic article out today in PLOS One contending the unauthorized immigrant population is millions larger than has long been estimated will attract widespread attention.

It is deeply unfortunate, therefore, that this thought experiment from a team of academics who specialize in management studies is based on seriously flawed assumptions leading them to the conclusion that there were at least 16.2 million, and as many as 29.5 million, unauthorized immigrants in the United States in 2016.

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/people-leave-footprints-millions-more-unauthorized-immigrants-cannot-be-hidden

[skeeter]

I'm not sure why the writers are certain the PLOS estimates are wrong - all they do is claim PLOS estimates are wrong, cannot be correct, and that conventional means of estimating the illegal population, based upon census data, are right. It really comes down to whether you believe the census undercounts illegals by 26 or 42 percent.

[Sanguine]

"Unauthorized Immigrants"  Interesting new euphemism.