About that Pew report...

Yes, the Director and Associate Director for Publications of the Pew Hispanic Center are--big surprise--of Hispanic descent, as correctly pointed out by a commenter. But try these names on for Hispanicity:

Rakesh Kochhar, Associate Director for Research
Richard Fry, PhD, Senior Research Associate
Jeffrey S. Passel, Senior Research Associate
Shirin Hakimzadeh, Research Assistant
Dulce C. Benavides, Project Specialist (OK, I'll give you that one)
Mary Seaborn, Administrative Manager

And what about the report itself?

About the Author

Rakesh Kochhar has over 15 years of research experience in the areas of labor
economics and price and wage measurement and analysis. Prior to joining the
Pew Hispanic Center, he was senior economist at Joel Popkin and Co., where he
served as a consultant to government agencies, private firms, international
agencies, and labor unions. He is a past president of the Society of Government
Economists. His doctoral thesis at Brown University focused on the theory of
labor migration.

In any case, ad hominem attacks on the report based on the ethnicity of the Center's staff prove nothing. Whether or not the report is biased (and by that I mean deliberately slanted toward a desired conclusion as opposed to offering a conclusion certain people don't like) can only be determined by examining the report itself. Any anti-immigrant readers interested in doing just that?

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