Costs of Immigration | Center for Immigration Studies

“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

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An Abundance of New Academic Studies Find Negative Impacts of Immigration

Topics: Costs of Immigration

The Urban Institute's Recent Welfare Study: a Swing and a Miss

Topics: Welfare

Administration's Border Funding Request Becomes Clear

Money needed "to address the grim situation" at the border

Topics: Costs of Immigration, Politics, Influx of Unaccompanied Minors

President to Seek Additional Border Funding

Request appears to be in line with bipartisan panel's report

Topics: Costs of Immigration, Illegal Immigration

There Is No ‘Labor Shortage’

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty

It's Tax Day — And Another Year Without Migration-Related Tax Reform

Topics: Costs of Immigration

The U.S. Is Not 'Too Empty' or 'In Dire Need of New Faces', as the N.Y. Times Puts It

Topics: Unemployment/Underemployment Rates and Immigration

The Employment Situation of Immigrants and Natives in the Fourth Quarter of 2018

Labor force participation remains low for the less educated across the country

Topics: Unemployment/Underemployment Rates and Immigration

Cheating Our Way to 4 Percent Growth

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty

Administration Takes a (Commendable) Baby Step Toward Taxing Aliens

Plus other ideas for collecting (or saving) money from immigration

Topics: Costs of Immigration