Economics
Immigration Rage Drowns Out the US Labor Market’s Need for Workers
Businesses are desperate to hire, but there’s little appetite in Congress to make it easier for migrants to work.
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Businesses across the US have been making the same appeal for years: Let’s admit more immigrants to ease a severe labor shortage and fill jobs that Americans don’t want to do.
So as migrants poured over the southern border during pandemic-era upheaval, the influx might have seemed like a potential solution to a problem that by the end of this decade could lead to $1.75 trillion in unrealized economic output. All of a sudden big cities were filled with large numbers of people eager to work and start on building their own version of the American dream.