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[–]FoxySDT 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Actually it doesnt account just for European immigrants, this data includes immigrants from Mexico, the Middle-East and other non-European countries.

Okay but they didn't distinguish between them. They didn't analyze effect of Mexicans, Africans, Asians,... on education, wages, fiscal impact each separately. This is important because the positive effects of European and Asian immigrants may offset the negative effects of African and Latin American immigrants. They just lumped them all together and proclaimed "Oh look, isn't immigration great?" It could very well be the case that some immigrants are better than others.

I know this is true for at least for educational attainment, fiscal impact and innovations.