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The Truth About Immigration: Economics
Originally published in 2018, this first article in a five-part series remains relevant and includes updated sources and data
Armchair experts espouse a lot of misinformed rhetoric regarding migrants based on the divisive language used by former and current president-elect Donald Trump. I’m here to clear the air with facts that some of them may not like.
In this day and age, everyone seems to be an “expert” on immigration. Well, they like to act like experts anyway. But it looks like all they do is spread nonsensical hyperbole that they deem factual. They do this without ever even looking anything up because it feeds their conscious, and sometimes unconscious, bias towards any non-white folks.
It’s the same logic and thinking that goes into nearly every conversation about police brutality disproportionately affecting people of color. Most of the responses to the actual statistics come from a place of black-on-black crime in an attempt to deflect from the facts. The same type of fallacious logic is used regarding immigration and the reams of misinformation on the topic.
Lucky for us, there are truckloads of information from bipartisan studies conducted by many institutes and think tanks. Immigration is an issue that…
