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Feb 7, 2025 | 
cis.org | Steven A. Camarota
The January 2025 household survey, released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is the first to be weighted by the government to better reflect the huge surge in illegal immigration in the past four years.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
cis.org | Steven A. Camarota
This PowerPoint is from a recent educational presentation by Steven Camarota, the Director of Research at the Center for Immigration Studies. We offer it here as a useful overview of contemporary immigration to the United States, including the scale of recent immigration and some of the important ways immigration today differs from the last great wave more than a century ago.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
cis.org | Steven A. Camarota
The president’s power when it comes to immigration is extensive Although Congress sets immigration law, the administration and enforcement of those laws is the responsibility of the executive. The most recent data from the American Community Survey confirms that presidents do have a significant impact on the number of new immigrants who settle in the country.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
nypost.com | Steven A. Camarota
Immigrants don’t need to have the right to vote to affect elections in the United States — simply by being here, they can tip the scales. The apportionment of House seats and votes in the Electoral College among the states is based on total population — not citizenship or legal status. The Census Bureau is clear that naturalized citizens, as well as non-citizens such as green card holders, foreign students, guestworkers and illegal immigrants are captured in the census every 10 years.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
cis.org | Mark Krikorian |Steven A. Camarota
View Podcast ArchiveFollow Parsing Immigration Policy on Ricochet, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Amazon Music, Spotify, Pandora, or use the podcast's RSS Feed. Listen to "Immigration Shifts Political Power" on Spreaker. SummaryImmigration shifts political power in the United States – without a single immigrant having to vote.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
cis.org | Steven A. Camarota
Washington Examiner, September 17, 2024The idea that there is a “shortage” of science, technology, engineering, and math workers in the United States has become an article of faith among many journalists, industry advocates, academics, and politicians. Consequently, they believe we need to allow significantly more STEM workers from abroad to meet this unmet demand. A new report from the National Academies of Sciences again makes this argument.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
nationalaffairs.com | Howe Whitman III |Daniel Wiser |Aaron Rothstein |Steven A. Camarota
September 29, 2024 In a disturbing development, assisted suicide and euthanasia have become more prevalent across the West in recent decades. Government and health authorities are encouraging voluntary death, even for patients who do not suffer from a terminal illness but are afflicted by disabilities, poverty, or loneliness. Guest Aaron Rothstein joins us to discuss the radical assumptions about life, death, and human nature that underlie the practice of euthanasia.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
cis.org | Steven A. Camarota
National Review, August 27, 2024Former president Donald Trump wrote in an August 20 post on Truth Social that “most new jobs under Biden went to illegal immigrants.” Predictably, “fact checkers” attacked his assertion. It is the case that a significant share of job growth went to the native-born in 2021 as the economy recovered from Covid. But Trump is probably right if we focus on the past two years.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
cis.org | Steven A. Camarota
U.S. House Oversight and Accountability Committee, Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign AffairsSummary: My testimony will focus on the impact of illegal immigration on housing affordability, public coffers, and American workers. 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.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
cis.org | Steven A. Camarota
The Census Bureau today released the 2023 American Community Survey (ACS), which shows a total foreign-born or immigrant population (legal and illegal) of 47.83 million in July 2023 — an increase of 1.65 million compared to the 2022 ACS. The size of the foreign-born population and the year-over-year increase are the largest the survey has ever shown.1 At 14.3 percent of the total U.S. population, the share is also a record in the ACS.
