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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More Immigration Will Not Slow Inflation

What it would do is damage the economic prospects of working-class Americans.

Topics: Costs of Immigration

Immigration Cannot Significantly Reduce Inflation

Estimating how much increasing the supply of workers through immigration might lower consumer prices

Topics: Costs of Immigration

Biden Administration Wasted $17 Million on Unused Hotel Rooms for Illegal Migrants

DHS IG raises questions about questionable ICE family housing contract — is HHS next?

Topics: Biden Border Crisis, Costs of Immigration

Why the Trump Administration Weakened Its Own Public Charge Rule

Topics: Costs of Immigration, Welfare

Immigration and the Crisis of Low Wages

New report ignores a major driver of the problem it decries

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty

Health Care at Hungary's Border

Hungary has opened its arms and its healthcare resources to Ukrainians fleeing Russia's war

Topics: Health Care

Defenders of the Public Charge Rule Have Their Day at the Supreme Court

Topics: Supreme Court Decisions on Immigration Policy, Welfare

SCOTUS Has Opportunity to End Biden’s Sue-to-Settle Regulatory Scheme

Justices appear skeptical of Biden’s side-door process to bypass Administrative Procedure Act requirements

Topics: Supreme Court Decisions on Immigration Policy, Welfare

New Public Charge Definition Same as the Old (Pre-Trump) One

Biden proposes to formalize Clinton-era definition in regulation

Topics: Welfare

Increase Immigration or Citizen Labor Force Participation? Policy Problems

Topics: Unemployment/Underemployment Rates and Immigration