[[A - Index - The immigration crisis at the southern border]] --- Reading: # Illegal Immigration and the U.S. Labor Market Prepared testiomny of Steven A. Camarota, Director of Research at the Center for Immigration Studies FOR The Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, of the Education and the Workforce Committee Hearing entitled "**The Impact of Biden's Open Border on the American Workforce**" on Wednesday, September 13, 2023 ([Source](https://edworkforce.house.gov/uploadedfiles/9.13.23_camarota_testimony_help_subcommittee_hearing_on_open_borders_and_workforce.pdf)) --- "There is evidence that illegal immigrants adversely impact the wages and employment of some American workers." - Sources needed "One of the chief arguments for tolerating illegal immigration is that the low unemployment rate means there are not enough workers. However, **this ignores the dramatic long-term decline in labor force participation, particularly among working-age, less-educated, U.S.-burn men.**" --- # Important interruption regarding legitimacy of the Center for Immigration Studies I noticed something peculiar as early as halfway down the first page of this prepared document—vague descriptors that the academically-involved would (hopefully) attempt to avoid that seemed to used to create a specific underlying tone of crisis, hints of question begging with the way claims were constructed . . . I asked, >Wait, who the fuck wrote this? The **Southern Poverty Law Center** describes the **Center for Immigration Studies** as "**the go-to think tank for the anti-immigration movement **. . ." >CIS's much-touted tagling is "low immigration, pro-immigrant," but the organization has a decades-long history of circulating racist writers, while also associating with white nationalists." ### The CIS is labeled as a "hate group." Their history also involves circulating pseudoscience that hypes up the criminality of immigrants. Their reports, according to SPLC, have been debunked by not only the **Immigration Policy Center**, but also the fucking **CATO Institute**. Sources: [Southern Poverty Law Center on the Center for Immigration Studies](https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/center-immigration-studies)