Costs of Immigration

“The share of immigrant-headed households (legal and illegal) with a child (under age 18) using at least one welfare program continues to be very high. This is partly due to the large share of immigrants with low levels of education and their resulting low incomes — not their legal status or an unwillingness to work. . ."

- Steven A. Camarota, Director of Research at CIS

Wages, Jobs, and Poverty

Social Security

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The Impact of Biden’s Open Border on the American Workforce

House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions. of the Education and the Workforce Committee

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty

The Long-Term Decline in Labor Force Participation at the State Level, 1960 to 2023

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty

Working-Age, but Not Working

A look at the decades-long decline in labor force participation among the U.S.-born and its implications for immigration policy

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty

Another Way for New York City to Limit the Migrant Fallout

The Feds must enforce health-related requirements of the immigration law

Topics: Health Care

Why Getting Labor Market Dropouts to Work Is Difficult

But limiting immigration is a good place to start

Topics: Unemployment/Underemployment Rates and Immigration

The Big Apple’s Big Pickle

As New York City buckles under the burden of Biden’s migrants, can the 1996 welfare reform law come to the city’s rescue?

Topics: Biden Border Crisis, Costs of Immigration, New York

Biden’s Immigration Policy Is a $3 Billion ‘Golden Ticket’ for Parolees. Not so Much for Taxpayers

Topics: Biden Border Crisis, Costs of Immigration

HHS Proposes to Extend Obamacare Benefits to DACA Recipients

CIS submitted a comment explaining that DACA, TPS, DED, deferred action, and parole recipients should all not be eligible

Topics: Health Care, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)

How Immigration Trends Impact Life Expectancy — and the Fiscal Results

Topics: Costs of Immigration

If DACA Beneficiaries Are ‘Lawfully Present’, They Shouldn’t Be Receiving State and Local Public Benefits

Topics: Welfare, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)