Michael Clemens is quoted in a Dallas Morning News column about immigration.
From the article:
Instead of a longer border fence, let’s talk about building more doors between the United States and Mexico.
We need more foreign workers, not fewer, because many immigrants do jobs that natives can’t or won’t do, and they account for much of the economic growth in Texas. They also offer a counterweight to declining birthrates here.
“The rules aren’t designed to help employers; the rules impede them,” said Michael Clemens, an economist at the Center for Global Development, a Washington think tank.
“Simply put: Many of America’s farms cannot survive without foreign labor,” he wrote in his report released last month, and he said other sectors face the same problem.
Read it here.
