Immigration Helps Lift America’s Economy To New Heights.
“Immigration has propelled the U.S. job market further than just about anyone expected, helping cement the country’s economic rebound from the pandemic as the most robust in the world.
That momentum picked up aggressively over the past year. About 50 percent of the labor market’s extraordinary recent growth came from foreign-born workers between January 2023 and January 2024, according to an Economic Policy Institute analysis of federal data. And even before that, by the middle of 2022, the foreign-born labor force had grown so fast that it closed the labor force gap created by the pandemic, according to research from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.”
Few topics are as divisive as immigration. The hard right faction of the GOP despises immigration and fight to limit it at every turn. The monied interests in the GOP, the ‘Fortune Five Hundred’, have a divergent opinion on the matter but are loath to voice their support for fear of angering the base the GOP needs to turn out and win elections. American clearly benefits from immigration and desperately needs comprehensive immigration reform but that simply is a heavy lift with mostly weaklings in Congress.
