Tucker vs. Analyst: If Immigration Makes Us Richer, Why Are We Getting Poorer?
RUSH EXCERPT:
CARLSON: "If more immigration makes you richer come up why is the American middle class getting poorer?"
NOWRASTEH: "We’ve seen a lot of the people in the United States that are suffering are those that are not competing with immigrants directly. It’s really people who are competing indirectly with immigrants that are doing poorly. For instance, let me put it this way. There’s never been an economy in world history that’s done better with fewer people. Increasing the size of the labor force, increasing the number of people who are entrepreneurs who are investors who are scientists who are consumers actually helps the U.S. grow."
CARLSON: "But we’re not importing software coders and investors, where importing people who happen to be nearby who are taking overwhelmingly the low-end jobs but that doesn’t get to the question. You pointed to Canada and Switzerland as examples of countries that have a lot of immigrants and are rich, suggesting that there's a connection. So we have way more immigrants we did when I was born but the middle class is poor and in fact dying younger but it’s not working for them."




