{"id":2223837,"date":"2024-04-18T03:41:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T07:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/economic-contributions-from-immigrants-released-into-us-from-border-may-come-with-strings-attached-experts-warn\/"},"modified":"2024-04-18T03:46:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T07:46:23","slug":"economic-contributions-from-immigrants-released-into-us-from-border-may-come-with-strings-attached-experts-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/economic-contributions-from-immigrants-released-into-us-from-border-may-come-with-strings-attached-experts-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts caution that the economic impact of immigrants entering the US from the border may have conditions attached"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feconomic-contributions-from-immigrants-released-into-us-from-border-may-come-with-strings-attached-experts-warn%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2223837&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Experts caution that the economic impact \u2064of \u2063immigrants entering the US from the border may have conditions attached. Recent research indicates that the US\u200d economy&#8217;s recovery from the pandemic outpaced the Great Recession, partly due to foreign-born workers. \u200dThe rise in immigrant population contributed significantly to the GDP growth, affecting labor supply and productivity. Experts warn that immigrants arriving in the US from the border may bring economic implications. Studies show that the US economic recovery post-pandemic surpassed\u2063 that of the Great Recession, with foreign-born workers playing a \u200bsignificant role. The increase in the\u2062 immigrant population notably influenced GDP growth, impacting\u2064 labor availability and productivity levels.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/border-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">crisis <\/a>at the southern border appears to have had a positive impact on the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/economy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">economy<\/a>, but experts warn the growth came with consequences.<\/p>\n<p>New findings by former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">White House<\/a> economic adviser Ernie Tedeschi concluded that the U.S. economy\u2019s recovery from the pandemic recession was stronger than the Great Recession more than a decade ago thanks in part to foreign-born workers in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-official-trump-crushes-record-for-largest-gdp-increase-in-us-history-3rd-quarter-gdp-up-33-1\/\" title=\"IT'S OFFICIAL: Trump Crushes Record for Largest GDP Increase in US History -- 3rd Quarter GDP Up 33.1%\">real gross domestic product<\/a> has soared 8.2% since the final quarter of 2019. The rise in the immigrant population since the end of 2019 accounted for at least one-fifth of that growth, \u201caccounting for direct labor supply, unemployment rate, and productivity effects,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.briefingbook.info\/p\/immigration-and-the-us-economy-since\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a> stated.<br \/>\u201cAbsent immigration, the US labor supply would have shrunk by 1.2 million since 2019. Instead, it expanded by 2 million,\u201d Tedeschi, a research scholar at Yale Law School and a visiting fellow at the Psaros Center for Financial Markets and Policy at Georgetown University, wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The data cited in Tedeschi\u2019s report was based on numbers provided by the annual Current Population Survey results published by the Census and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Immigrants referenced in the report included immigrants who did and did not have legal status to be present in the country, including people who were released from the southern border, who crossed without getting arrested, and people on green cards or visas.<\/p>\n<p>Without the addition of immigrants, Tedeschi said the labor force would have lost roughly 1.2 million U.S. workers primarily due to aging. Instead, it added 2 million workers.<\/p>\n<p>Washington think tank the Brookings Institution published a report that analyzed findings from the Congressional Budget Office, which confirmed that unexpected net growth in the U.S. population had fueled the economy by adding workers.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, CBO projected net immigration in 2023 to be 1 million people, but instead, it topped 3.3 million people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCBO\u2019s figures are reasonable given what we know about border activity and other immigration data,\u201d Brookings authors Wendy Edelberg and Tara Watson wrote in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamiltonproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240307_ImmigrationEmployment_Paper.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a>. \u201cFaster population and labor force growth has meant that employment could grow more quickly than previously believed without adding to inflationary pressures. In addition, greater immigration has likely resulted in greater con sumer spending growth, the strength of which has persistently surprised observers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Eric Ruark, research director for immigration think tank NumbersUSA, said the two reports were half-truths and did not consider who was being positively affected by the economic gains.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe argument that immigration is \u2018good for the U.S. economy\u2019 is based on the truism that adding millions of more people to the U.S. population raises total GDP. It\u2019s also true that mass immigration lowers per capita GDP, which means U.S. workers lose ground,\u201d said Ruark in an email. \u201cEconomic growth driven by mass immigration creates gains for immigrants and employers of immigrants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Brookings Institution report suggested that immigrants who entered illegally or overstayed a visa made up, by far, the largest number of immigrants added to the workforce in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, U.S.-born workers may not see the economic benefit directly impacting them if it translates into depressed wages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the main arguments we\u2019ve recently heard in favor of increased immigration is that it helps bring down inflation by expanding the labor pool; in other words by driving down wages for American workers. Tedeschi admits as much in his report, although begrudgingly in a footnote,\u201d Ruark said.<\/p>\n<p>Former federal immigration Judge Andrew R. Arthur agreed with Ruark\u2019s point that any economic boom in recent years is not without a new set of victims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDriving down the wages of American workers \u2014 both U.S.-born and legal immigrants \u2014 may not have been the intent of the president\u2019s lax immigration-enforcement policies (a desire to \u201cadvance[e] equity for all, including people of color and others who have been historically underserved, marginalized, and adversely affected by persistent poverty and inequality\u201d is, as I\u2019ve <a href=\"https:\/\/cis.org\/Arthur\/Crucial-Paragraph-Explains-All-Bidens-Immigration-and-Border-Policies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explained<\/a> elsewhere), but it has been the result,\u201d Arthur, Resident Fellow in Law and Policy for the Washington-based think tank Center for Immigration Studies, in a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/cis.org\/Arthur\/If-Economic-Indicators-Are-Good-Why-Arent-Voters-Feeling-It\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rebuttal<\/a> to the economic reports, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImmigrants will continue to generate good, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hillary-im-thrilled-that-president-biden-is-taking-advantage-of-this-moment-to-try-to-push-the-agenda-as-far-as-possible\/\" title=\"Hillary: \u2018I\u2019m Thrilled That President Biden Is Taking Advantage Of This Moment To Try To Push the Agenda As Far As Possible\u2019\">positive economic growth<\/a>,\u201d Correa countered. \u201cThey will continue to be what I call a political pi\u00f1ata.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The economic gains for the U.S. economy are notable for the Biden administration in an election year, as the issue has been top of mind for voters.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Lou Correa (D-CA) defended the boost foreign workers bring to businesses locally, saying that in his Orange County district, businesses that have been unable to find people able to work may instead rely on immigrants without work papers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBack home, the manufacturers, they need the workers,\u201d Correa said in a phone interview with the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Correa said the challenge for lawmakers was how to help illegal immigrants who need jobs and cannot legally work but have been admitted into the country to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-mccarthy-leads-delegation-of-gop-reps-to-southern-border\/\" title=\"Rep. McCarthy leads delegation of GOP reps. to southern border\">await immigration court proceedings<\/a>, which can take years to navigate.<\/p>\n<p>Correa recalled a recent meeting with a Republican lawmaker who lamented that the U.S. needed more Ukrainians because \u201cthey\u2019re productive, they come to work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said the reason Ukrainians come in and work is because you give them a work permit when they come across the border. They have what\u2019s called parole,\u201d Correa said, referring to a Biden administration initiative to admit Ukrainians and allow them to legally work for two years. \u201cAll these others \u2014 they come in, they don\u2019t have work permits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has not disclosed how many of the 9 million immigrants encountered at the border have ultimately been released into the country, but Correa claimed the country had a \u201cmassive swell of the underground economy\u201d as a result.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Correa suggested providing immigrants released into the U.S. from the border with two-year work permits so that they can work above the table and pay taxes while they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-he-will-probably-visit-us-mexico-border-soon\/\" title=\"Trump Says He Will \u2018Probably\u2019 Visit US-Mexico Border Soon\">await court hearings<\/a>. Only immigrants who request asylum will receive a work permit but not until six months after making an asylum claim, leaving individuals in limbo for half a year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook at China \u2014 they\u2019re running out of workers,\u201d said Correa. \u201cWe\u2019ve got them coming, and we don\u2019t know how to use them and that to me is a sin, a sin, against our economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The situation at the US-Mexico border seems to have benefited the US economy, but experts caution that it has brought about repercussions. Recent research by ex-White House economic adviser Ernie Tedeschi revealed that the US economy&#8217;s post-pandemic recovery outpaced that of the Great Recession, partly due to this impact<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2655,"featured_media":2223838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24022104745272-1024x577.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2223837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24022104745272-1024x577.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2223837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2223838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}