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What Is Driving Immigrants From El Salvador To Las Vegas? (2000-2010), Jeffrey Gonzalez, John P. Tuman Jan 2015

What Is Driving Immigrants From El Salvador To Las Vegas? (2000-2010), Jeffrey Gonzalez, John P. Tuman

McNair Poster Presentations

The purpose of this study is to examine if death rates due to crime or unemployment drove immigrants from El Salvador to migrate to Las Vegas between the years of 2000 to 2010. This study will be most directly based on the research conducted in the study Unauthorized Immigrant Population: National and State Trends, 2010, conducted by the Pew Research Center. Pew Research Center’s study focuses on finding an estimation on the number of undocumented immigrants that have entered the United States, the number of immigrants that are in the United States workforce, and the trends regarding what states and …