Evidence That Immigrants Reduce Wages and Job Opportunities for Low-Skill Americans

Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 12

In this week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, Jason Richwine, a Resident Scholar at the Center, highlights Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) cases in which a clear pattern of discrimination against U.S. workers emerges.

Bills to Speed Resettlement of Afghan Allies Cut Corners on National Security, Fraud, and Public Health

There are reasons to be concerned about whether the bills presently pending before Congress strike the right balance between expeditious processing sufficient to meet the looming 9/11/21 withdrawal deadline, while simultaneously ensuring the security and public health safety of American citizens. This is because the bills waive or eliminate important public health and national security safeguards presently built into the law.

Estimating Illegal Immigrant Receipt of Cash Payments from the EITC and ACTC

Millions of illegal immigrants have Social Security numbers, potentially allowing them to receive cash payments from the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Additional Child Tax Credit. We estimate that illegal immigrants may receive between $3.8 and $4.5 billion from the two programs. This is in addition to the $4.4 billion we have previously estimated illegals likely received in stimulus checks this year.

Amnesty Would Impose Large Costs on Social Security and Medicare

Under current law, illegal immigrants are net contributors to Social Security and Medicare because they partially pay in to entitlement programs but cannot legally receive benefits. By granting eligibility for benefits, however, amnesty would transform illegal immigrants from net contributors into net beneficiaries, imposing steep costs on the Social Security and Medicare trust funds.

Wages and Job Opportunities
Wages and Job Opportunities
Resettlement of Afghan Allies
Resettlement of Afghan Allies
A UN of Mass Illegal Immigration
A UN of Mass Illegal Immigration
Illegal Aliens and the EITC/ACTC
Illegal Aliens and the EITC/ACTC
Social Security and Medicare
Social Security and Medicare

Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 12

In this week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, Jason Richwine, a Resident Scholar at the Center, highlights Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) cases in which a clear pattern of discrimination against U.S. workers emerges.

There are reasons to be concerned about whether the bills presently pending before Congress strike the right balance between expeditious processing sufficient to meet the looming 9/11/21 withdrawal deadline, while simultaneously ensuring the security and public health safety of American citizens. This is because the bills waive or eliminate important public health and national security safeguards presently built into the law.

Millions of illegal immigrants have Social Security numbers, potentially allowing them to receive cash payments from the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Additional Child Tax Credit. We estimate that illegal immigrants may receive between $3.8 and $4.5 billion from the two programs. This is in addition to the $4.4 billion we have previously estimated illegals likely received in stimulus checks this year.

Under current law, illegal immigrants are net contributors to Social Security and Medicare because they partially pay in to entitlement programs but cannot legally receive benefits. By granting eligibility for benefits, however, amnesty would transform illegal immigrants from net contributors into net beneficiaries, imposing steep costs on the Social Security and Medicare trust funds.

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CBP Finally Releases June Apprehension Numbers — And They Are Dismally High

Illegal migration rose during a month it should be falling — which is a really bad sign

After her trip to El Paso last month, Vice President Harris stated that the administration has seen “extreme progress” at the border. The only ones who are really making “progress” there are the smugglers who are moving even more migrants illegally to the United States and the drug cartels that are ramping up their shipments of death. Each is likely preparing for more such perverse “progress” in the coming months.

Drug Overdose Deaths Reached Highest Level Ever in 2020, with Fentanyl a Key Factor

As long as the border is in chaos, the deadly drug will keep flowing in and kill even more

Record numbers of Americans are dying of drug overdoses. Part of that is demand for drugs, but there’s little the federal government can do about that. The Biden administration can, however, ameliorate the problem by cutting the supply of drugs entering the country. That means freeing up CBP to stop those drugs by limiting illegal migration.