U.S. Dilemma Isn’t the Wall, Economists Say, But What to Do About Already-Slowing Immigration
- Low-skill industries likely to adapt through more automation
- Steady growth in migrant-sending nations has reduced wage gap
Trump’s Border Wall: Either Way, You Pay
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Demographic trends are already slowing immigration to the U.S. from Latin America, making the current administration’s desire for a border wall look “anachronistic,” according to new research by University of California, San Diego, economists.
“The dilemma facing the United States is not so much how to arrest massive increases in the supply of foreign labor, but rather how to prepare for a low immigration future,” economists Gordon Hanson, Chen Liu and Craig McIntosh wrote in a paper to be presented at a conference on Thursday at the Brookings Institution in Washington.