Amid what has been portrayed as a “civil war” between the “MAGA Republicans and Big Tech,” over H-1B visas for skilled foreign workers, an economic advisor to the Trump campaign has asserted that there is no better way than immigrants to make America great again.
The restrictionists in President-elect Donald Trump’s Republican party want fewer visas, and the pro-growth wing wants more, Stephen Moore a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation, noted in a commentary on Rasmussen Reports.
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The Trump campaign advisor noted that Trump himself has announced his support for expanding immigrant worker visas, telling the New York Post, “I’ve always liked the visas, I have always been in favor of the visas. That’s why we have them.”
Despite some traditional nativist concerns that immigrants “take jobs from American workers,” the most recent meta-study published in 2020 by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that, on balance, immigrants are “job creators, not job takers,” Moore wrote citing former AOL CEO Steve Case.
“That is because immigrants today as always have high rates of starting businesses, fill niches in the workforce, and create jobs with their purchases of American goods and services,” he stated.
The nonpartisan American Immigration Council recently found that 45% of American Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants and their children, Moore…
