High legal and illegal immigration, like what is happening under President Joe Biden, results in fewer jobs and less income for American blue-collar workers, according to a timely report.
Using federal labor numbers, the report found that the Biden immigration crisis is crushing the economic goals of noncollege-educated workers.
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By comparison, blue-collar workers were better off when former President Donald Trump was in office and reducing immigration, the Center for Immigration Studies said.
“This analysis shows that real (inflation-adjusted) median weekly earnings for U.S.-born workers without a bachelor’s increased more quickly during the period of lower legal and illegal immigration from 2016 to 2019 than in periods of higher immigration before and after,” said the report from the center’s research director, Steven Camarota, and demographer, Karen Zeigler.
“Since 2020, however, real earnings have declined for virtually all workers, which should give pause to those now calling for more immigration to reduce inflation by lowering wages further, particularly for lower-paid, less-educated Americans,” said their report.
The report was issued just days before a new surge of illegal immigrants is about to cross into the United States, either legally and seeking asylum or illegally as so-called “gotaways.”
The surge is the result of the end of COVID-era rules limiting migration. Border states are bracing to be flooded with immigrants and are taking measures to back up federal agents on the border.
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The economic benefit of limiting migration runs counter to years of liberal claims that more immigrants are needed to fill jobs.
The report said, “The rise in earnings and labor force participation, particularly for the less-educated, along with low inflation and the overall good economic conditions from 2016 to 2019 runs counter to the often-made argument that the U.S. economy requires very high levels of immigration to prosper.”
