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One of the most contentious points raised is interacting with immigration statistics. Reports, including those from Goldman Sachs, indicate that not all illegal immigration is factored into current employment data, thus raising questions about the veracity of reported employment figures. Goldman Sachs suggested that the actual unemployment rate may be inaccurately low due to improperly accounted immigration in the data sets.
The annual adjustments made to the employment statistics take into account census data, but there have been suggestions that the numbers from recent years do not fully account for the volume of illegal immigration contributing to workforce figures.