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Where to Find Government Documents?

Use drop down menu in opening COAST

screen to select "Government Documents"

 

You can select your keywords such as "immigration and testimony",

"illegal aliens and statistics" or "immigration and documents"

There are a tremendous number of government documents to be found in Google.com

Here are some techniques to find them.

1. Enter single word, or to find phrases, enter topic in "quotes." That way the words will be found next to each other.

Examples:

"statistical reports" or "expert testimony" or "government report" or "statistical abstract" or documents or figures or rates.

2. Enter single word, or if phrases, enter topic "in quotes" that relate to immigration.

Examples:

"illegal immigrants" or "illegal immigration" or "border crossings" or  aliens or refugees or immigrants

3. Select the government domain of the 'net by entering SITE:GOV  This will limit your search to government sites.

Putting it all together, your google search might look like this.

Click on the strategies to see some google results. Note how these terms have been entered in the Google search box:

"illegal immigration" statistics site:gov

"statistical reports" refugees site:gov

"illegal immigrants" statistics site:gov

immigration mexican site:gov

immigration asian site:gov

immigration chinese site:gov