JP

Quotes by Jeffrey Passel

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The composition of the population hasn't changed much in the last 25 years.
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This is only people physically coming in, arrivals into the country for the first time.
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Once they come in, they are actually reluctant to leave.
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It's been very hard to find any effect from border security.
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The boom in the U.S. economy at the end of 1990s increased flow by 35 percent, but that peak was rather short-lived.
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The border patrol is actually helping to keep people in the United States, rather than out.
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There's about 6.5 million adults who are in families, either couples or couples with children, and there's another 2 million children. The vast majority of this population is families.
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This population is a bunch of families, not a bunch of single guys.
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Texas is a special case. The number of both legal and illegal immigrants has grown faster in Texas than in other major states.
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The security has done more to keep people from going back to Mexico than it has to keep them from coming in.
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