The U.S. Needs More Immigrants to Grow the Economy and Create Jobs

Immigrants create jobs, they are usually very entrepreneurial. People who have a dream and can't reach it in their own country are the most likely to go where they can do it.   - - Donna Poisl

By Matthew Denhart, The George W. Bush Institute

"They're stealing our jobs."

This anti-immigrant argument posits that immigrants coming to the United States harm native citizens by taking jobs that otherwise would be filled by Americans. The implication -- sometimes more explicitly expressed -- is that we should limit immigration because doing so would result in more jobs for the 8.1% of unemployed American workers who desperately need them. The problem with this argument, however, is that it forgets that immigrants bring new skills that help grow our economy, creating new jobs that benefit us all.
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