> Camarota does raise a fair point: US-born children of immigrants would not exist in the United States had their parents not immigrated. If the goal is to estimate the total fiscal effects attributable to immigration, then including those children alongside their parents is a reasonable exercise. Of course, that argument also means we should include the grandchildren of immigrants in the analysis because they wouldn’t be here without immigrants either. Great-grandchildren too. On second thought, Camarota doesn’t have such a good argument.

Nice bit of shade.