When President Donald J. Trump announced his newly created office of Victims Of Immigration Crime Engagement — or VOICE — last week during his speech to a joint session of Congress, it built upon his longstanding efforts to associate crime with immigration.
“The contributions of immigrants permeate nearly every facet of American society,” Gomez Isaac said, noting that immigrants work crucial jobs that range from caretakers to builders of “our offices and homes.”
“Whether it be the $106,932,000 in state and federal incomes they contribute, the revenue they create for American companies, or the creativity they generate to enrich our society, the U.S. depends on immigrants economically, socially, and culturally,” Gomez Isaac said.
The facts that Gomez Isaac cite come from a document that she refers to as “45 for 45.” The formal title of the document is “Immigration Data on Demand: 45 Fact sheets for the 45th President of the United States of America. The 8 National Fact sheets.”
It is one of three bundles of factsheets that the Institute for Immigration Research at GMU plans to release during the course of the first 100 days of the Trump administration. They are being released in order to “highlight this comprehensive body of evidence on the important role immigrants have in the nation’s economic success.”
“Our hope is that all stakeholders — at the national, state, and local levels — take this evidence to heart,” the document states. “The time is now to work together to recognize and understand the positive economic contributions of New Americans.”
