Jesús Carmona, the owner of Milagro Tacos Cantina, poses at his restaurant on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022, in Dallas.The pandemic hammered the U.S. economy, revealing serious labor shortages. Now economists are highlighting a major factor: disappearing immigrant workers, both unauthorized and with visas.
Nowrasteh estimates that 1.6 million to 3.2 million immigrant workers would have been added to the labor mix had the economy continued on its go-go 2016 trajectory, when a high of 1,065,000 migrants came to the U.S. from other countries, according to the Census Bureau.Giovanni Peri, director of the Global Migration Project at the University of California, Davis, estimates that 2 million immigrant workers are missing from the U.S. economy.
“If we can’t get the help from within, we need to find it from outside our borders and that means we need meaningful immigration reform… a program tailored to our construction needs,” Crone said. In December, the Biden administration said it will make another 20,000 H-2B guest worker visas available to employers nationwide. But that wouldn’t even cover the shortfall that the Dallas Builders Association estimates it has: The group says North Texas needs at least 20,000 more construction workers.
Those migrants who are successfully allowed to pursue cases under U.S. asylum rules still face a tough time in federal immigration courts that are now clogged with a record 1.6 million cases. But the loss of immigrants may be a more vexing and long-lasting problem. First, they are much younger, with decades of work life ahead. Half those lost immigrants would have been college-educated immigrants, the U.C.-Davis economist said.
I mean…. Did they not pay attention to anything Trump did?
I spoke about that yesterday. Ask GregAbbott_TX also look at how immigrants and POC have been treated during the pandemic before and after TFG was elected. Look at the news. People don't want to risk that for minimum wage. Ask the GOP
Ask your man Greg.
Maybe if we didn't have a 'stay in Mexico' policy, we'd have more readily available workers to fill the labor shortages.
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'Where are the immigrant workers that we can exploit and treat like garbage?' There, fixed it for you.
'They stole our jerbs!'
I thought the immigrants were stealing all your jobs, and that’s why they needed to go.
GOP screwed that up
Hahahahshshajahdjs
Jobs that pay have no shortage of workers. It’s not rocket science.
The question should be, where are all the American workers always complaining that immigrants are taking their jobs? Come on people, the gates are open, STEP UP.
Ask if those employers are going to pay the market rate. Stop acting like the people on the construction sites around DFW are here and working 100% legally.
No one reads this junk paper
Now that’s funny …
They should be asking where are the US workers that are paid to stay at home by our own government!
You couple Covid deaths with baby boomers leaving the work force, zero birth rate and far fewer immigrants and people leaving some industries ,many Americans are incarcerated or simply lacking the job skills to be in the job market. Jobs go to the educated
They are deported or what not. Now who's going to do that horrible low pay work digging ditches, roofing, stoneworking , framing, fast food
Trump and Biden say hi...
Have these bosses been in a coma for 5 years?
Waiting at the border
Stuck beyond a wall?
they're almost here, don't worry
There is no labor shortage. Companies are getting tons of applications a day, they're just keeping their stores understaffed to save on labor costs.
You seem to forget. Many of them are dead from covid.
These 'bosses' of which you speak, are they Wharton alumni?
There's just as many of them around as there ever was and more.
Ugh
When they don’t give you any credit in the headline
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AlexNowrasteh i thought we had open borders
Rocket science
Were are the higher wages to attract Anericans as opposed to paying third worlders third world wages?
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