Jeffrey Passel Quotes

"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."

"We've seen a fairly steady growth in the number of undocumented immigrants living here, and this data shows very sizable numbers coming in. We're clearly not stopping them at the border."

"There was a huge expansion in the jobs that the undocumented did."

"The overall picture is that of young, working families coming to the U.S. to participate in the labor market."

"The boom in the U.S. economy at the end of 1990s increased flow by 35 percent, but that peak was rather short-lived."

"Especially if we look at the Mexicans, these are people with fairly low levels of formal education. They're not able to get licensing or credentials in the United States because of their status, so the kinds of jobs available to them in the United States are somewhat limited."

"This is only people physically coming in, arrivals into the country for the first time."

"We've seen a fairly steady growth in the number of undocumented immigrants living here, and this data shows very sizable numbers coming in."

"It's been very hard to find any effect from border security."