More Questionable Research From the SPLC-Labeled Nativist Group, the Center tor Immigration Studies
Craig Harrington and Cristina Lopez, Media Matters
September 3, 2015
Numerous conservative media outlets are parroting the misleading conclusions of a September 2015 report by an anti-immigrant nativist group, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), which claims that "immigrant households use welfare at significantly higher rates than native households." Like previous flawed CIS studies, these findings have been called into question by immigration experts for failing to account for the economic hardship of some immigrant families, lumping American-born beneficiaries into "immigrant household" categorizations, and conflating numerous anti-poverty programs with so-called "welfare."[...]
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http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/09/03/media-run-with-discredited-nativist-groups-rese/205368
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