1/ The real immigration crisis at our borders isn’t that we are letting in too many people. It’s that we haven’t realized the economic implications of letting in too few.
2/ Following mainstream media outlets provides only a surface level understanding of the impact of immigration on the U.S. economy. We need to dig deeper. budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2016/1/…
3/ As birth rates decline, making it easier to legally immigrate into the U.S. will be critical to our future prosperity. wsj.com/articles/immig…
4/ Over time, immigrants pay more into the system than the take out. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
5/ There are many bad arguments out there for why we should make it more difficult to immigrate into the U.S. These arguments often begin with bad info cato.org/blog/14-most-c…
6/ Many act as though the benefits of immigration end and the costs persist. But what we know about second generation immigrants tells a very different story. pewresearch.org/social-trends/…
7/ What we do today to encourage immigration will have a lasting impact in the late 2030’s and beyond.
8/ More on that here: pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017…
9/ This need not be a partisan issue. The data is clear on how important immigration is to our future prosperity. oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/downloads/repo…
10/ The consequence of ignoring this data is a rapidly aging population that will put us at a significant economic disadvantage in the decades ahead. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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