25 Quotes by Steven Camarota

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.

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

Anyone who says we've tried enforcing the law and failed is wrong.

The bottom line is the number of people who came from 2000 to 2004 was more than we've seen in American history, 6.2 million people in a four-year period,

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

They're looking at 46 million people who would like to come--if the numbers are to believed. Even if a small fraction decide to come, you're looking at enormous numbers.

There's broad public dissatisfaction with any plan that does not start with enforcement.

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.