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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New York Gives Itself an Administrative Nightmare with Grants to Illegals

Topics: Costs of Immigration, New York

Do the Stimulus Checks Stimulate Immigration? The Samoa Story

Topics: Costs of Immigration

Why the Supreme Court Needs to Assert Itself Over the Public Charge Rule

The regulatory process needs to be followed and the Supreme Court cannot allow the current administration to sidestep normal procedure.

Topics: Supreme Court Decisions on Immigration Policy, Costs of Immigration, Welfare

Temporary Foreign Workers Eligible for Stimulus Payments

Topics: Costs of Immigration

Amnesty Would Impose Large Costs on Social Security and Medicare

Topics: Costs of Immigration, Amnesty and Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Biden Reopens Cheap Foreign Labor Pipeline

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty

Are Illegal Aliens Receiving COVID-19 Relief Checks? Yes

Millions of immigrants known to be in the U.S. illegally are nonetheless issued Social Security numbers — and given money.

Topics: Costs of Immigration

Biden Administration Weakens Legal Immigration Requirements

Pulling the plug on public charge and affidavit of support rules

Topics: Welfare

Taxpayers to Spend $392.69 per Person per Night on Hotels for Illegal Border-Crossers

You are now a smuggling co-conspirator

Topics: Biden Border Crisis, Costs of Immigration

Estimating the Number of Illegal Immigrants Who Might Get Covid Relief Payments

Topics: Costs of Immigration