From Jose Ivan Rodriguez-Sanchez: I’m a scholar of immigration and economics who researches a trend that’s driving labor shortages: declining numbers of immigrants allowed to legally work in the U.S.
. The total fell by about a third to 566,000 in 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic got underway, and the numbers were basically flat in 2021 at 566,001 — the first year of Joe Biden’s presidency.or lead to the dismissal of gainfully employed Americans.show there are long-term benefits in terms of what native-born people earn when immigration rises.The sharp reduction in the number of temporary visas for foreign-born workers in 2020 and 2021 harmed the U.S. economy.
, on average, annually for the next eight years. Adding that all up, that would amount to about $9 trillion in lost economic output.Labor shortages are especially severe today in certain industries that rely heavily on immigrants as employees.for 39% of the farming, fishing and forestry workforce, 30% of all people employed in construction and extraction, 26% of everyone working in computer science and mathematics and 22% in health care support.
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