Immigrants and Benefits

Immigration Policy Center (IPC)
…providing factual information about immigration and immigrants in the United States.

This Week’s Immigration OnPoint Highlights

Separating Fact from Fiction:
Refugees, Immigrants and Public Benefits
Immigration OnPoint: Facts at Your Fingertips for Frequently Asked Immigration Questions

September 8, 2008

Anti-immigrant activists have a history of distorting the facts about immigrants and making dishonest assertions in order to stir up American’s fears and frustrations.  Recently, emails have circulated full of misinformation about  legal immigrants and refugees receiving more public benefits than U.S. citizens.  This week’s Immigration OnPoint is loaded with facts and figures that counter such flagrantly erroneous claims.

Separating Fact from Fiction: Refugees, Immigrants and Public Benefits (Immigration Policy Center – September 2008) – This fact sheet addresses the twisted facts and false information that anti-immigrant activists use in emails that wrongfully accuse immigrants of using and abusing public benefits.

Contact: Andrea Nill
202-507-7520
anill@ailf.org

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Immigration OnPoint is a project coordinated by the Immigration Policy Center to create and maintain an online catalogue of short documents and fact sheets that provide quick answers to commonly asked questions about immigrants and immigration. Immigration is a notoriously complex issue area, and the current immigration debate is filled with myths, misinformation, fear, and emotion, making reasoned decision-making difficult.  OnPoint documents are meant to confront myths and provide factual information about immigrants and immigration policy.

Documents on the OnPoint website are meant to be widely distributed to the public, press, policymakers, and others in order to inject factual information into the immigration debate. Many different organizations have contributed their time and expertise to create these documents. OnPoint will continue to grow and be updated throughout the year.

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