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WaPo – The economy is roaring. Immigration is a key reason.

A recent Washington Post article reports, “The economy is roaring. Immigration is a key reason. Momentum in the job market picked up aggressively over the past year — all while Washington is deadlocked on a border deal.”

This again confirms what we have always known, that immigrants have make our country the economic engine of the world. Stop MAGA from lying that immigrants are the enemy of America.

Immigration has propelled the U.S. job market further than just about anyone expected, helping cement the country’s economic rebound from the pandemic as the most robust in the world.

That momentum picked up aggressively over the past year. About 50 percent of the labor market’s extraordinary recent growth came from foreign-born workers between January 2023 and January 2024, according to an Economic Policy Institute analysis of federal data. 

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