Randy Capps is Senior Policy Analyst and demographer at the Migration Policy Institute (MPI). He has analyzed data and conducted field research on immigrants and their children from a wide variety of sources. Dr. Capps has recently published national studies on health care coverage of immigrants, trends in public benefit use by immigrant families, education of first- and second-generation children of immigrants, and the impact of immigration enforcement activities on children of unauthorized immigrants. He has also published widely on immigrant integration at the state and local level. Prior to joining MPI, Dr. Capps was a researcher in the Immigration Studies Program at the Urban Institute. Dr. Capps received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Texas in 1999, and received his M.P. Aff., also from the University of Texas, in 1992.