Fact Checking Immigration Misconceptions

Project authors: Filip Graniczny, John Jones, Oscar Saenz, Ben Luppen and James Joseph

View the project on their website.

Data sources:

• Pew Research Center
• Department of Homeland Security
• American Immigration Council
• Pew Research Center article “Mexicans decline to less than half the U.S. unauthorized immigrant population for the first time“
• Pew Research Center article “Key findings about U.S. immigrants“
• Pew Research Center page Origins and Destinations of the World’s Migrants, 1990-2017
• Pew Research Center article “How Americans see illegal immigration, the border wall and political compromise“
• Immigrants in Colorado Fact Sheet
• Salud America! article “The Shocking Ways the Media Portrays Immigrants“
• The Washington Post article “The news media usually show immigrants as dangerous criminals. That’s changed – for now, at least.“
• The New York Times article “Migrants Are on the Rise Around the World, and the Myths About Them Are Shaping Attitudes“
• Migration Policy Institute “Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States“