Economic Benefits of Refugees

I thought that this article from the NYT was interesting when comparing it to our reading about immigration from Pew Research. While the "Department of Health and Human Services[..] found that refugees brought in $63 billion more in government revenues over the past decade than they cost," the Trump administration rejected the findings of this study, citing political bias. These results are especially relevant when considering that, according to the Pew Research, 50% of Americans believe that immigrants negatively affect the US economy. Considering that Pew's research was done in 2015, it would be interesting to see how their predictions for our population's racial/ethnic makeup would change when considering Trump's proposed restrictions on immigration.