America needs more “employment-based” immigrants – immigrants in the category that consists mostly of professionals, skilled workers, and persons with “extraordinary” or “exceptional” ability – to do jobs few Americans can do, to start businesses, and to power faster economic growth that will pull more out of poverty and create greater prosperity.
In 2017, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine published The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration, a comprehensive report concerning the impact of immigrants on the U.S. economy. The key findings were that immigrants increase long-term economic growth, help the economy avoid the stagnation plaguing many other countries caused by aging workforces, bolster “innovation, entrepreneurship, and technological change,” increase the number of patents not just in total but per capita, and raise productivity.
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