Critics of immigration often claim that immigration to the United States, and the growth of the Latino population more broadly, are accelerating out of control and that immigrants today are neither assimilating nor contributing to the U.S. economy and society like their predecessors in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. However, according to a January 2008 Immigration Policy Center report by demographer Dowell Myers1, immigration has, in fact, begun to level off and immigrants are climbing the socio-economic ladder and becoming increasingly important to the U.S. economy as workers, taxpayers, and homebuyers supporting the aging Baby Boom generation.2

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