Steven Camarota Quotations

It's the strongest, most comprehensive enforcement bill we have seen in a generation or more. It goes about 70 percent of the way to getting us to actually enforcing the law, if it were ever implemented.

It's hard to see how you can reconcile what the Senate is likely to do and what the House has done. My guess is we won't see a major change this year.

Natives with relatively little education are leaving the labor market in droves. This should not look like this at this point in an economic recovery.

Coming to America is becoming a national aspiration rather than simply reflecting abject economic conditions.

With the number of labor-intensive acres going up in California, their behavior does not seem to suggest that they see a labor shortage, even if that's what they tell reporters. Farmers always think there's not enough labor. It's a very unpredictable business. You can't control the weather. The one thing you can push for is a lax immigration program, or a guest-worker program.

The whole idea that 'America has a 5 percent unemployment rate and therefore clearly we need lots of immigrant labor' is very foolish.

The 35.2 million immigrants living in the country in March 2005 is the highest number ever recorded. It is also two-and-a-half times tally of the 13.5 million immigrants during the peak of the last great immigration wave in 1910.

The ability of a state or local government to do a great deal about immigration is limited. No question about it.

People don't want an increase in immigration, and legalizing someone who is illegal just sticks in their craw.

People come here to work, ... sliced the data really thin.