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The history of the United States is filled with stories of immigrants, many illegal, who have come to the U.S. in search of work. So when the U.S. economy enters a recession and unemployment rises, do these same workers head home? According to Demetrios Papademetriou, President of the Migration Policy Institute, the answer is no. He has recently published a report that says illegal immigrants are likely to stay put in the current economic crisis. He joins us now to explain his findings.

Demetrios Papademetriou, president and founder of the Migration Policy Institute, talks about the proposed point system in the immigration bill and Jeffrey Reitz, professor of Sociology and R.F. Harney Professor of Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies University of Toronto, talks about the Canadian immigration point system, which ...