Steven A. Camarota, Children of Immigrants

Steven A. Camarota, PhD, is director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, DC. Dr. Camarota earned his PhD from the University of Virginia and a master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He has testified before Congress numerous times on immigration-related issues. His articles on the impact of immigration have appeared in academic journals and the popular press including Social Science Quarterly, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and National Review. He appears frequently on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News Channel, NBC Nightly News, and ABC World News Tonight. His most recent works, published by the Center for Immigration Studies, are Where Immigrants Live: An Examination of State Residency of the Foreign Born and Back Where We Started: An Examination of Trends in Immigrant Welfare Use Since Welfare Reform. Other recent work includes The Open Door: How Militant Islamic Terrorists Entered and Remained in the United States, 1993-2001. He is the lead researcher on a Census Bureau project that is examining the quality of data on the foreign-born in the American Community Survey.