Keeping Immigration in Perspective

Keeping Immigration in Perspective

The number: Since the end of 2020, more than 9 million people have migrated to the U.S., which is roughly triple the number of people who came over in the past three years.

The context: As Wall Street Journal reporter Paul Kiernan noted in a new analysis, the country is undergoing “its largest immigration wave in generations,” which is “swelling the population and changing the makeup of the U.S. labor force in ways that are likely to reverberate through the economy for decades.”

Bubba’s Two Cents

It’s been kind of startling how much the consensus on immigration has shifted in recent years. We went from a fiercely divisive debate over Trump “putting kids in cages” to Democratic presidential candidates coming out in support of the border wall. You can credit a lot of the change to the massive immigration wave of recent years, which made the issue impossible to ignore.