Statistical Modeling to Address the Problem of Illegal Immigration

摘要

The problem of immigration reform resembles a situation that those of us who have engaged in statistical consulting often find. One member of the team working on the problem insists one aspect be addressed first when diat aspect is ill defined and often impossible to resolve. In the public discussion of immigration reform, there are politicians who insist we must first "secure our borders." Over die years, different attempts by the federal government to improve on border security have failed to meet this ill-defined objective in the eyes of those who insist upon it.