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Steven A. Camarota testifies before the U.S. House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs
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Congressional Testimony
The Border Crisis: The Cost of Chaos
Statement of Steven A. Camarota before the U.S. House Oversight and Accountability Committee, Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs
Summary: Adding millions of people to the country through immigration drives up the cost of housing and reduces affordability relative to wages in areas of heavy settlement. Fiscally, illegal immigrants are a net drain — they create more in costs than they pay in taxes. Illegal immigration also increases the supply of labor impacting the wages and employment of some American workers, often the poorest and least educated. The availability of illegal immigrant workers allows American policymakers to ignore the decades-long increase in the share of working-age less-educated U.S.-born men not in the labor force — neither working nor looking for work. They are not counted as unemployed because they are not actively looking for work. This deterioration is linked to serious social pathologies such as crime, welfare dependency, suicide, and drug overdoses. Finally, illegal immigrants do increase the aggregate size of the U.S. economy, but overall GDP impact is not a measure of their tax contributions or economic benefits to the U.S.-born. Almost all the GDP increase goes to the illegal immigrants themselves in the form of wages.
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Podcast
Investigating Panama’s Efforts to Cut Off Migration
Host: Mark Krikorian
Guest: Todd Bensman, National Security Fellow, CIS
Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 172
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Featured Posts
Why Kamala Harris Is Thinking About Going to the Border
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: Harris might decide it’s best to avoid immigration and the border at every opportunity and change the subject whenever those topics are brought up. Any response she gives with respect to either will just draw attention to them.
Convicted Border-Crossing Terrorist Added to the CIS National Security Vetting Failures Database
By Todd Bensman
Excerpt: A Russian national who illegally crossed the U.S. Southwest border and got convicted of terrorism crimes in federal court is now the latest edition to the Center for Immigration Studies’ National Security Vetting Failures database.
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Poll: Americans Aren’t Fooled by Immigration Enforcement Claims
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: The GW/Harris X poll makes clear that American voters are underwhelmed by immigration enforcement under the Biden-Harris administration, and that they are not fooled by reports that things are getting much better on that front. So expect Trump to highlight the issue between now and November 5, and the vice president to talk about almost anything else.
How Bad Are Things in ‘Root-Causes’ Honduras?
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: Much has been said about Vice President Kamala Harris’s role in addressing the root causes of illegal migration, but few have examined whether her efforts in that role have been successful. If anyone’s curious, they may want to check out what’s happening in Honduras — or just tune into Radio Havana.
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