Comment: Immigration reform will become an economic necessity
The working age population is shrinking. Immigrants won’t replace Americans; we need them to work.
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The working age population is shrinking. Immigrants won’t replace Americans; we need them to work.
According to research by economists at Harvard University, Americans overstate the number of immigrants living in the United States by almost fourfold. They underestimate their education and employment rates, and overestimate both their poverty and the burden they impose on American taxpayers.
Blue states already are home to millions of immigrants, and they are helping those states’ economies.
The arguments for a more liberal immigration policy are solid. A robust and still growing body of economic research has repeatedly debunked the claim that immigrants take Americans' jobs and cut their wages. It was bogus back in the time of the Braceros.