Economic Gains from Immigration

From the Immigration Policy Center:

Experts Highlight Economic Gains from Immigration

At a forum held Tuesday by the Hamilton Project of the Brookings Institution, a panel of experts sought to “distinguish economic reality from myth” in the often fact-free and emotion-laden debate over how immigration affects the U.S. economy and U.S. workers. The forum, entitled “Crossing Borders: From Myth to Sound Immigration Policy” – as well as an accompanying report, Ten Economic Facts About Immigration – served to refute the shrill and empirically baseless claims of nativist groups that immigrants are stealing jobs from Americans while draining the public treasury. Read more…

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