BEHIND THE CURTAIN - SIMON,JULIAN MANIPULATION OF IMMIGRATION STUDIES

The Cato institute-published study by Julian Simon, Immigration: The D emographic and Economic Facts (1995), is a fifty page amalgam of Simon 's analysis, extracts from studies by other immigration researchers, a nd tables and charts that might intimidate some readers into believing that it is a work of original scholarship and represents new academic research findings on the effects of immigration. Rather it is a repac kaging of arguments and selective earlier data, often out of date or m eaningless because of the way that it is selected and manipulated.