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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Reducing the Size of the Illegal Population Would Not Impose ‘Devastating Costs’

Immigration lawyers’ think tank exaggerates price tag

Topics: Costs of Immigration

Fed Chairman Concedes Border Crisis Is Boosting Unemployment

‘We understand there's been quite an influx’

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty

New data show no STEM worker shortage

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty

Op-ed: New Data Show No STEM Worker Shortage

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty

Illegal Immigration Is Expensive

The Biden-Harris administration is handing out more hundreds of millions to bail out localities reeling from the crisis it created

Topics: Costs of Immigration

New Wage Data Show No STEM Worker ‘Shortage’

Contradicts new National Academies report

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty, H-1B Nonimmigrant Visa Progam

Op-ed: Trump Is Likely Right about Illegal Immigrants Accounting for Job Growth

Large-scale immigration allows us to ignore the deterioration in labor-force participation.

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty

Trump Is Likely Right about Illegal Immigrants Accounting for Job Growth

Large-scale immigration allows us to ignore the deterioration in labor-force participation.

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty

Tax Payments by Illegal Immigrants?

A recent analysis misses half the issue

Topics: Costs of Immigration

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz — Free Healthcare and College Education for Illegal Aliens

There’s no such thing as a ‘free lunch’, and Americans who end up paying usually have the least

Topics: Costs of Immigration, Politics, Minnesota