25 Quotes by Steven Camarota

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 public agrees on certain things, and one of these is the distinction between legal and illegal immigration, ... in the end it's mostly within Washington's purview.

Millions of people are going to keep coming every decade unless we restrict it. That's the bottom line.

No one disputes that less-educated natives have done very poorly in the last five years.

People are coming unless we stop them. It's not going to take care of itself,

States have a choice: They can either buttress federal law or undermine it. It appears Virginia is trying to buttress it. And I think that reflects popular sentiment in Virginia.

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.

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.