Who Really Benefits From Illegal Immigration? | Victor Davis Hanson
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Economists Admit Migration Spikes Inflation
Mass migration is spiking inflation in Canada because migrants increase rents and housing prices, say Canadian economists.
The Canadian admission contradicts repeated claims by U.S. lobby groups that migration cuts inflation by lowering wages.
The admission is important for U.S. politics because it shows Americans how President Joe Biden’s easy-migration policy is fuelling the unpopular inflation that is impoverishing many millions of Americans. “Wages are NOT keeping up … Since President Biden took office, the average worker has lost over $4,900 in real wages,” said a June 26 report by the GOP-led House Budget Committee.
The key point for economists is that legal and illegal migrants are not just cheap wage-cutting workers; they are also consumers who raise prices by competing to buy housing, used autos, and many other goods and services.
When migrants arrive, “the extra spending and the extra demand for housing is almost instantaneous, whereas it might take a new [wage-cutting] worker a little bit of time to really act as a dampener on inflation,” Bank of Montreal Chief Economist Doug Porter told Bloomberg Businessweek for a July 17 article.
“The short-term impact does tend to lift inflation,” he admitted.
Bloomberg showed how a mass inrush of migrants has created an inflationary shock in Canada’s housing market:
Roughly every 1% rise in population translates to a 3% increase in real home prices across the 18 countries analyzed over the past two decades, according to Porter. Soaring housing costs and rents are captured in shelter inflation, which has the biggest weight in Canada’s consumer price basket. Shelter rose 4.7% in May from a year ago and rents jumped 5.7%.
On July 17, Canada’s Financial Post reported similar comments from Tiff Macklem, the governor at the Bank of Canada:
He said that while newcomers filling job vacancies has been good for company [profits,] easing inflationary pressures, new entrants are also increasing demand for housing, helping boost rent and home prices. It’s “hard to know exactly” the net effect on the economy, he added, but the main message is that immigration is adding to both demand and supply.
Macklem’s bank has raised Canada’s interest rates to combat the inflation spurred by migration, he told the Financial Post. “What we’re seeing is that the excess demand in the economy is more persistent than we thought and so we’ve raised rates in June and July.”
An increase in immigration could be one complicating factor keeping inflation higher for longer and stoking demand, Bank of Nova Scotia economist Rebekah Young said. “… newcomers [immigrants] are a part of that story,” she said. “They are certainly adding to what could be keeping (Macklem) up at night.”
Bloomberg noted:
“The fact that the bank raised rates again suggested that they put a significant emphasis on demand coming from immigration,” Rishi Mishra, an analyst at Futures First Canada Inc., said in an interview … “Rapid population growth is also part of the reason why inflation is expected to stay elevated longer and why growth outlook is stronger.”
Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, is accelerating migration in Canada so much that the likely inflow in 2023 is nearly ten times the number of annual births in the nation.
Meanwhile, Canada’s expanding economy and growing welfare spending are hiding the painful decline in per-person income for Canadians as their wages fall compared to other countries.
“It is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore Canada’s widening real GDP per capita gap versus other major economies,” economist Marc Ercolao told Canada’s Financial Post for a July 17 article headlined, “Posthaste: Canada’s standard of living is falling behind the rest of the developed world.”
Many investors, their lobbyists, and the media in Canada and the United States want to import more migrant workers each year. But they also insist that migration is good because it cuts inflation.
For example, in May 2022, Goldman Sachs declared:
There are reasons to believe some liberalization of immigration policies could be politically beneficial [because] Inflation ranks as a higher priority than immigration among voters of all parties, with the greatest difference among Democrats.
“The U.S. has too few immigrants — not too many,” said the May headline on an article by Catherine Rampell, a pro-migration writer for the Washington Post. “An alternative strategy [to reduce inflation] might involve ramping up supply [of workers], allowing in more immigrants legally authorized to work.”
“Taking hundreds of thousands out of the labor force will further fuel inflation, exacerbate supply chain challenges and tip the economy into recession,” a group of business executives said in a June letter to GOP politicians. An amnesty for illegal migrants “is not only morally right; it is also absolutely crucial to addressing labor shortages, reducing food prices and creating jobs for all American families,” said the American Business Immigration Coalition.
“Exit polls of voters confirmed that inflation remains a top voter concern … Congress can actually help by increasing legal immigration [and] expanding the number of work visas in sectors that face worker shortages,” Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) said in November 2022.
The donor-funded Republican National Committee is spotlighting the damage done to “real hourly wages” by Biden’s inflation but does not admit the impact of donor-backed migration:
In the United States, “what we see is this inflation in rents, inflation in home values, and it just makes it harder for middle-class Americans to get by,” along with wage cuts and job displacement, said Kevin Lynn, founder of Progressives for Immigration Reform. He told Breitbart News:
The only reason it’s being allowed to happen by voters is that they’re all being gaslighted into thinking that there are employment vacancies and there is a demand for labor that only immigrants can fill.
“That’s just rubbish,” he added.
Extraction Migration
The federal government has long operated an unpopular economic policy of Extraction Migration. This colonialism-like policy extracts vast amounts of human resources from needy countries, reduces beneficial trade, and uses the imported workers, renters, and consumers to grow Wall Street and the economy.
The migrant inflow has successfully forced down Americans’ wages and also boosted rents and housing prices. The inflow has also pushed many native-born Americans out of careers in a wide variety of business sectors and contributed to the rising death rate of poor Americans.
The lethal policy sucks jobs and wealth from heartland states by subsidizing coastal investors with a flood of low-wage workers, high-occupancy renters, and government-aided consumers.
The population inflow also reduces the political clout of native-born Americans because the population replacement allows elites to divorce themselves from the needs and interests of ordinary Americans and from the growing chaos and poverty of American society.
In many speeches, border chief Alejandro Mayorkas says he is building a mass migration system to deliver workers to wealthy employers and investors and “equity” to poor foreigners. The nation’s border laws are subordinate to elite opinion about “the values of our country,” Mayorkas claims.
Related — Biden’s Border Chief Rejects Economic Concerns on Migration: “This Is a Nation of Immigrants”
C-SPANMigration — and especially labor migration — is unpopular among swing voters. A 54 percent majority of Americans say Biden is allowing a southern border invasion, according to an August 2022 poll commissioned by the left-of-center National Public Radio (NPR). The 54 percent “Invasion” majority included 76 percent of Republicans, 46 percent of independents, and even 40 percent of Democrats.
Joe Biden’s Parole Pipeline Frees More than Half a Million Migrants into U.S.
President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released more than half a million migrants into the United States through its parole pipeline — a foreign population larger than the population of Sacramento, California.
A few months into taking office in 2021, Biden began implementing an expansive Catch and Release network that has transformed the United States-Mexico border into a European-style checkpoint where border crossers are often stopped, briefly detained, and then released into the nation’s interior.
According to calculations published by Camilo Montoya-Galvez at CBS News, the Biden administration has released at least 541,000 migrants into the U.S. interior.
The figure suggests that nearly 170,000 migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean, more than 163,000 Ukrainians, 133,000 migrants via Biden’s migrant mobile app, and 77,000 Afghan nationals have been released through the parole pipeline in less than two years.
The total, though, is likely much higher.
Prior estimates, calculated and published in April by the Center for Immigration Studies, suggest that more than a million migrants had been released into the U.S. interior. This indicates that a foreign population larger than Jacksonville, Florida, has been brought to American communities by the Biden administration.
The latest total from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) states that, under Biden, the illegal alien population across the U.S. has grown to nearly 17 million — an increase of 2.3 million illegal aliens since he took office.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Who Really Benefits From Illegal Immigration? | Victor Davis Hanson
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Business, Progressives Sue to Kill Ron DeSantis’s Popular Migration Reform
A business-tied advocacy group, the ACLU, and various progressive advocacy groups have launched a lawsuit campaign against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ss popular, wage-boosting curbs on illegal migration.
DeSantis’s law against illegal migration “goes far beyond the federal scheme, penalizing a wide array of conduct that Congress chose not to prohibit [and] impedes the federal immigration scheme by preventing immigrants from entering Florida,” says the lawsuit by the establishment coalition, which includes the ACLU, the progressive-run Farmworker Association of Florida, and the American Immigration Council.
The council is a spinoff of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. In 2021, it merged with the “New American Economy” advocacy group that was created by two pro-migration media billionaires — Rupert Murdoch who owns Fox, and Michael Bloomberg who owns Bloomberg News.
The council’s merged board includes advocates who work closely with companies that profit from the inflow of migrant consumers and workers, and it tries to shift public opinion to shore up the declining public support for migration. It also earns money by importing J-1 white-collar workers for jobs at various companies.
DeSantis’s new law curbs the transport of migrants into Florida and requires many employers to use the federal E-Verify system to exclude illegal migrants from jobs.
The lawsuit is aimed at the transport curbs, saying DeSantis’s law “unconstitutionally criminalizes the act of transporting a broad category of immigrants into Florida.
Many business groups have denounced DeSantis’s law because it reduces the number of illegals who will work for cheap. For example, the Wall Street Journal reported on July 3:
In downtown Miami, construction cranes are ubiquitous, rising above the fast-growing skyline. At site after site, the story was the same. Workers have fled. Many others are waiting to see what happens.
Outside one construction site, a worker said that he had lost about half his crew. They went to Indiana, he said, where jobs are paying $38 an hour instead of $25, and where they won’t have to look over their shoulders.
The alliance between the cheap-labor business groups and the pro-migration progressives is intended to slow the exit of migrants — regardless of the pocketbook damage to ordinary Americans.
“It is seldom that labor and business are on the same page — but on this one, I think, we have some common ground,” said Jeannie Economos, a manager at the Farmworker Association of Florida, which is the leading plaintiff in the lawsuit.
Correspondingly, DeSantis’s push to expel illegals from Florida is good for ordinary Americans, partly because it reduces the cost of housing and forces U.S. employers to raise wages in Florida.
“Some [employers] have raised wages” for Americans, Economos admitted to Breitbart News.
“Armando Oyola, the owner of Aegis Construction Services, has lost four of roughly 50 workers already due to the bill,” SarasotaMagazine.com reported on June 14:
“A documented worker that’s good will make between $20 to $30 an hour,” he adds. “An undocumented [worker] gets roughly $150 a day for 10-hour days.” But with fewer workers to choose from, Oyola sees raises on the horizon. “Guys who were making $20 are going to want double to compensate for the market,” he says. “Eventually, they’ll get those raises, and it will trickle down to the homebuyer.”
USA Today reported on June 21:
The owner of a Naples construction company, Valdez, who is also from Mexico, stayed home in solidarity with his Hispanic workers who boycotted Florida’s new immigration law.
Since DeSantis signed the immigration bill, Valdez has lost 15 of his best [illegal migrant] workers, who have moved to other states like Illinois and North Carolina.
He used to pay painters $18-$20 an hour. Now, he’s paying $30-$35, which ended up increasing the costs for his work. “I have to adapt,” he said.’
The real-world response matches the predictions of a 2020 report funded by FWD.us, which is an advocacy group for wealthy West Coast investors, including Mark Zuckerberg.
If “existing undocumented workers were to exit the Florida economy in the number anticipated were E-Verify were [sic] to be adopted, the adequate numbers of native workers would not be available at current wage rates,” said the draft report funded by FWD.us.
The breadth of investors who founded and funded FWD.us was hidden from casual visitors to the group’s website in early 2021. But copies exist at the other sites.
Most reporters are framing the Florida dispute as a battle for “migrant rights” — not as a pocketbook fight between employers and employees. In large part, this media skew reflects the economic interest of the investors who fund or own U.S. media companies, and their ability to hire compliant reporters.
But some media outlets are following the money.
Under DeSantis’s law, employers will “have to pay higher wages to documented workers or citizen workers than they would to someone who’s here illegally and was happy to work for these lesser wages,” Sean Snaith, the director of the Institute for Economic Forecast at the University of Central Florida, told ClickOrlando.com.
Extraction Migration
The federal government has long operated an unpopular economic policy of Extraction Migration. This colonialism-like policy extracts vast amounts of human resources from needy countries, reduces beneficial trade, and uses the imported workers, renters, and consumers to grow Wall Street and the economy.
The migrant inflow has successfully forced down Americans’ wages and also boosted rents and housing prices. The inflow has also pushed many native-born Americans out of careers in a wide variety of business sectors and contributed to the rising death rate of poor Americans.
The lethal policy sucks jobs and wealth from heartland states by subsidizing coastal investors with a flood of low-wage workers, high-occupancy renters, and government-aided consumers.
The population inflow also reduces the political clout of native-born Americans because the population replacement allows elites to divorce themselves from the needs and interests of ordinary Americans and from the growing chaos and poverty of American society.
