Mr. Camarota is Director of Research at the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, D.C. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in public-policy analysis, and a Masters degree in political science from the University of Pennsylvania.

In recent years he has testified before Congress more than any other non-government expert on the economic and fiscal impact of immigration. He is currently under contract with the Census Bureau as the lead researcher on a project examining the quality of immigrant data in the American Community Survey.

His research has been featured on the front pages of the New York Times, Washington Post , and USAToday as well as many other media outlets. He has written academic articles for such journals as the Public Interest and Social Science Quarterly . He has also written general interest pieces for such publications as the Chicago Tribune and National Review . He appears frequently on radio and television news programs including CNN, MSNBC, Fox News Channel, NBC Nightly News , and ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, National Public Radio , and the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer .

Some of his most recent works published by the Center for Immigration Studies are: Immigrants in the United States 2007: A Profile of the America's Foreign-born Population; 100 Million More: Projecting the Impact of Immigration on the U.S. Population, 2007 to 2060; Illegitimate Nation: An Examination of Out-of-Wedlock Births among Immigrants and Natives; The High Cost of Cheap Labor: Illegal Immigration and the Federal Budget; Back Where We Started: An Examination of Trends in Immigrant Welfare Use since Welfare Reform; Dropping Out: Immigrant Entry and Native Exit from the Labor Market 2000-2005; Births to Immigrants in America: 1970 to 2002; Immigration in an Aging Society: Workers, Birth Rates, and Social Security.