We researched this extensively for the amicus brief; see here. It’s infinitesimally small if it exists at all.

SPOILER: I'll be presenting updated data thru 3/10/26 that includes Minneapolis! Based my recent NBER paper (w/Chloe East & Elizabeth Cox) Sign up here: riceuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Link to paper: lnkd.in/gBJAXZVJ

Immensely grateful to share an amicus brief on birthright citizenship, submitted to SCOTUS last week. We present esta of the impacted child population (4.8 mil children in next 20 yrs alone!) + financial contributions through 2074 under status quo ($7.7 trillion!). Link: lnkd.in/gGXngCDY 1/7

Big victory today for undocumented students in the UC! www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

To give you a sense of how harmful detention is, the prevalence of mental illness, PTSD & poor health among detained immigrants in our study was ASTRONOMICALLY higher than in the US pop, even after controlling for pre-det health characteristics (see below). jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

W/ immigrant detention constantly in the news, I share my portfolio of peer-reviewed research on harms of this system. In @jamanetworkopen.com, we show alarmingly high prevalence of poor health, mental illness & PTSD for all, w/ esp high rates for those detained 6+mo. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...