> 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.

>compared their per-capita welfare use to that of natives

The interests of its native people (including giving to those among them that need it some welfare money) is the reason a state exists.

So what sense does it make to compare in per-capita or absolute terms, the welfare given to each group? Any non-zero amount wont be an argument in favor of immigration.