'Dreamers' didn't take jobs from Americans

Swim19 · 04-06-2023, 10:05 AM

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More than a decade after it was passed, the report from The University of Delaware states: “DACA did not harm the labor market outcomes of native born workers. There is suggestive evidence that the policy had a positive impact on the fraction of natives working.”

“That’s because when a new worker enters the economy, they end up creating other jobs for other workers elsewhere,” David Bier, immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute, told Yahoo Finance. “I think the nativist version of events is really divorced from economic reality. They treat an immigrant worker coming into the economy completely differently than they treat a U.S. worker entering the economy, when an economist looking at the situation would say the economic effect is the same and it doesn’t matter whether they’re born here or born somewhere else. The end result is going to be the same, which is ultimately a benefit overall to our well-being and living standard.”

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“DACA is a very interesting policy to think about economically,” Emily Battaglia, author of the report and assistant professor of economics at the University of Delaware, told Yahoo Finance. “By construction of the policy, the cohort of DACA-eligible immigrants are not new immigrants. They’ve been in the country for many years and have already been participating in the U.S. economy.”

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“That’s a benefit to the economy and to U.S. job growth because their productivity means higher wages, and that translates to more consumer spending that’s creating jobs at other businesses in other industries,” Bier said. “Obviously they’re filling certain positions in the economy, but the fact is that they also create demand for other jobs elsewhere. They produce things of value for a company. The company pays them money, then they buy housing and consumer goods and services elsewhere. That creates jobs for U.S. workers in other positions.”

As a result, the presence of Dreamers may actually be a boon to the U.S. workforce.

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dtrt09 · 04-06-2023, 10:42 AM

Neither do 99% of undocumented folks. In fact, ag workers have the nations' food security in their hands as does MX since they export 50% of their produce to the U.S.

Schumer and Jeffries need to seriously work with the progressives to update the registry.
DACA are still undocumented.

hDreamer1988 · 04-06-2023, 11:39 AM

There is nothing either part can do alone at this point... It will need to be a bipartisan effort and seems impossible.

FLDreamerrr · 04-06-2023, 03:38 PM

Even with this info so far all the proposed bills are dead on arrival

dtrt09 · 04-06-2023, 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by FLDreamerrr

Even with this info so far all the proposed bills are dead on arrival

In the last 30 yrs Durbin, Graham, Biden, Pelosi, McConnell and Schumer have been in office, they helped save banks that caused Americans to lose their mortgages and homes, authorized wars and the invasion of Iraq, approved increase after increase for immigrant incarceration funding, but something like moving up the registry to align with contemporary immigration reality is not something they have found the time to do.

beingoflight · 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by dtrt09

In the last 30 yrs Durbin, Graham, Biden, Pelosi, McConnell and Schumer have been in office, they helped save banks that caused Americans to lose their mortgages and homes, authorized wars and the invasion of Iraq, approved increase after increase for immigrant incarceration funding, but something like moving up the registry to align with contemporary immigration reality is not something they have found the time to do.

yeah because the BS of "Legalization 4 all or nothing" doesnt work.

hDreamer1988 · 04-07-2023, 08:16 PM

Let's be honest, the votes were not there, they did not have the 60 senate votes and 218 House votes. Neither side was willing to compromise enough to get a deal done. It will only worsen if the Republicans take the Senate and white house.

dtrt09 · 04-07-2023, 09:42 PM

Interestingly, they do find the votes for far more controversial things than legalizing and providing safety to 7 million undocumented workers decades of life in the country.

2Face · 04-12-2023, 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by beingoflight

yeah because the BS of "Legalization 4 all or nothing" doesnt work.

That is a strategy of big time organizations like UWD to continue making the cash flow....filling their coffers...paying out big salaries...

Pianoswithoutfaith · 04-15-2023, 07:57 PM

Gonna have to write UWD another big one

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'Dreamers' didn't take jobs from Americans