This volume examines key facts surrounding immigration and explores the truthfulness of controversial claims or beliefs surrounding it, to provide an unbiased understanding by addressing falsehoods, half-truths, and misconceptions and confirming the factual validity of other claims. It answers 37 questions about immigration (along with detailed discussion of the facts), addressing demographics, immigration history, and the shaping of the US; labor, employment, and the economics of immigration; unauthorized immigration, refugees, and asylees; assimilation, education, and social programs; crime and public safety; children; the US-Mexico border; and policies and politics of immigration. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)