Camarota’s testimony focused on the Biden administration’s abuse of the narrow immigration parole power Congress has granted the executive. “It’s not a program to be used en masse for large numbers of people,” Camarota pointed out. “It is extremely hard to see how parole granted on this scale could have been done on a case-by-case basis as the law requires.”
Digging deeper, Camarota detailed the fiscal fallout of the prior administration’s decision to parole nearly three million otherwise inadmissible aliens into the United States. The research is clear that educational attainment at arrival is a key determinant of an immigrant’s fiscal impact, he explained. He went on to cite Census Bureau data, including data indicating:
- One out of four recent adult immigrants from the top parolee sending countries lack a high school diploma, compared to 6 percent of the U.S.-born;
- Average wages of newly arrived immigrant men from the primary parolee-sending countries are only about 44 percent that of U.S.-born men;
- Half of households headed by new immigrants from the top parolee countries access one or more welfare programs – twice the rate of U.S.-born households; and
- Average parolee-headed households have only 47 percent of the federal tax liability of U.S.-born households.
Camarota concluded the Biden administration’s deliberate misuse of the parole program has established a fiscal drain, creating a negative impact on our nation’s economy that will not be alleviated any time soon.
The full hearing and written testimony are available here.
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