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Fall 2009
Winter 2009

Information and background:

Immigration Myths (PBS)
Immigration Myths
Economic Contributions of Immigration
Wall’s Impact on Border Species

Studies of Interest:

THE “FUNNEL EFFECT” & RECOVERED BODIES OF UNAUTHORIZED MIGRANTS PROCESSED
BY THE PIMA COUNTY OFFICE OF THE MEDICAL EXAMINER, 1990-2005
Binational Migration Institute

Petit Apartheid in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: An Analysis of Community Organization Data Documenting Work force Abuses of the Undocumented
Dr. Anna Ochoa O‟Leary, Adjunct Professor, Mexican American Studies and Research Center, University of Arizona

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: Border-Crossing Deaths Have Doubled Since 1995; Border Patrol’s Efforts to Prevent Deaths Have Not Been Fully Evaluated
United States Government Accountability Office Report to the Honorable Bill Frist, Majority Leader, U.S. Senate, August 2006

The Myth of Immigrant Criminality and the Paradox of Assimilation: Incarceration Rates Among Native And Foreign-born Men
Immigration Policy Center, Rubén G. Rumbaut, Ph.D.and Walter A. Ewing, Ph.D.,Spring 2007

Immigrants in Arizona Provide Positive Net Fiscal Impact of $1 Billion Annually
Udall Center Update, October 2007

Immigrants in the U.S. Health Care System: Five Myths That Misinform the American Public
Center for American Progress, Meredith L. King, MPP, June 7, 2007

Economic Impact of the Mexico-Arizona Relationship
Thunderbird, the American Graduate School of International Management, 2003