How to Classify Immigrant Speeches

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i was really blown away by this findings. I did not expect a that when immigrants were primarily european, that the speeches would be so uniformly negative. With immigrants being much more diverse, there is actually difference of opinion. And some anti imigrant politicians that rans pointed to, those are not in any way, outliers,. Those that actually represent what was the common sentiment at the time, which was very anti imigration.

Immigration to the United States, say Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan, is more novel than short story: It takes decades for new immigrants to catch up economically. But their kids on average thrive economically and have higher rates of upward mobility than American-born kids. Abramitzky and Boustan talk about their book Streets of Gold with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Using an extraordinary data set of millions of Americans, Boustan and Abramitzky find that today's immigrants and their children are surprisingly similar to yesterday's.