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A TALE OF TEN CITIES

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 A TALE OF TEN CITIES
An NPG Forum Paper
(NPG Booknote) 
by Donald Mann
April 1996


It often seems as though the dispute about immigration’s impact on America involves endless debate over statistics — whose are right and whose are wrong. We read charges and counter-charges of misleading and manipulated data and conclusions, often leading to a contentious but inconclusive flurry.

Immigration is the driving force that will cause the population of America to explode to nearly 400 million in just 50 years.

But every so often there appears a study so unique in conception and innovative in style that it has the potential to alter the overarching frame of a debate. A new report from the Federation for Ameri-can Immigration Reform, authored by noted Tulane demographer Leon Bouvier and researcher Scip Garling, and entitled A Tale of Ten Cities: Immigration’s Effect on the Family Environment in American Cities, is just such a study.

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