Category: History & Economics
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Migration Policy Institute writes this short statement of the debate we need but are not having. They ask: What role can and should immigration have in the US?
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A bill in California would expand the number of doctors by 8000. Mexican doctors would under the direction of American doctors. Read here
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Read article here. “ The mass deportations in Trump 2.0 are not helping the labor market overall and not creating more job opportunities for U.S.-born workers,” East says. In fact, she and her co-author find evidence that, if anything, the clampdown has hurt the employment prospects of U.S.-born workers, particularly working-class men who work in industries…
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National Immigration Forum puts out this article which summarizes the various reasons that businesses should support immigration.
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The CATO Institute’s recent report shows that immigrants pay more taxes than the average American.
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The Deportation Data Project provides this report from the first year of the Trump administration based on data published by the federal government
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This six-minute video on PBS interviews David Bier of the CATO Institute about both the legal and illegal immigrant reductions into the country under this administration. The recent CATO study shows that legal immigration has dropped to 1/3 of it’s previous level from 186,000 to 54,000 per month and illegal entries have reduced from 62,000…
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This TRAC report shows the mothly % of asylum cases granted and denied – showing that the current denial rate is 80%. TRAC is the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse which references government data (from Department of Homeland Security) for it’s reports and data summaries.
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The Migration Policy Institute has issued a short article about the various ways that this administration has reduced legal immigration and how that reduction will affect the total U.S. population and our economic growth and competitiveness.
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A Brookings article describes the positive benefits of immigrants in the economy and suggests that fewer immigrants does not necessarily mean more jobs for US citizens. Because fewer immigrants will cause the economy to shrink so there will be fewer jobs for American citizens.
Immigration Insight 