Mr. STEVE CAMAROTA (Center for Immigration Studies): Mainly because the Democrats moved to the Republicans position.

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If illegal immigration didn't work for Republicans as a campaign issue, Camarota says there's a good reason.

NPR: Immigration Logjam May Break with New Congress

Steve Camarota, of the Center for Immigration Studies, says that kind of system threatens to enshrine a subclass of foreign workers.

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"Education attainment is the single best determinant for a whole variety of social outcomes, " said Steven Camarota, director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington.

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Mr. CAMAROTA: You can't have run on a kind of enforcement platform and one of the first things that you're asked to do is to have an amnesty for 10 million illegals.

NPR: Immigration Logjam May Break with New Congress

"In New York City, Italians once had a much higher high school dropout rate, " Camarota said, noting an Italian immigration flux in the United States that spanned the years of 1890 to 1920.

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"Most Americans recognize the United States should have some immigration, but that there are real problems of enforcement and control and numbers ... or they can say these things in an effort to silence their opponents ... it's not clear it's all that effective, " said Steve Camarota, of the immigration studies center.

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