According to immigration advocates, our economic prosperity depends on a high level of immigration to provide enough workers to fill job openings. So did the economy falter between 2016 and 2019, an interval when legal and illegal immigration declined significantly?
No, it didn’t. In fact, it improved, as revealed by the research of Steven Camarota at the Center for Immigration Studies. Camarota notes that “[The] total GDP growth in these three years was actually higher than in the preceding three years — 7.5 versus 6.7 percent. The inflation rate, which is now such a concern, was about the same in the first three years of the Trump presidency as it had been in the years before.”
The restriction of immigration during those years also saw the wages of less-educated American workers go up, at a faster rate than the wages of high-skill workers.
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