The white House has decided to suspend the DACA program. This was announced by attorney General Jeff sessions.
Sessions criticized DACA, arguing that the program, which was initiated by the past President Barack Obama, represents the excess presidential powers.
What will replace DACA (and replace), will be dealt with by Congress. For this he was given six months.
Four million unemployed Americans
Note, sessions has argued that the DACA migrants took jobs away from people born in the United States.
The DACA program allowed those migrants who illegally brought to America when they were children to avoid deportation and obtain a work permit. The program duration was two years with option to extend.
According to The Washington Post, and the President trumpand his administration have also repeatedly stated that 800 thousand people living in the United States for the DACA program, simply take the jobs of those born in America.
«We know that in this same age group there are more than four million unemployed Americans,» — said the press Secretary of the White house Sarah Huckabee Sanders. «This is a huge number of unemployed who could obtain their positions».
But this claim many opponents. There is no actual evidence that these unemployed Americans (whether it be blacks, whites or Hispanics) possess the qualifications and skills to jobs that take young DACA beneficiaries.
«Yes, indeed, there are hundreds of thousands of unemployed Americans of the same age, but a question of experience and qualifications is another matter,» says Douglas Holtz-Yixin, President of American Action Forum and former economic policy adviser for the presidential campaign of Senator John McCain.
«And even if they have this experience,» he adds. «Then the question – why haven’t they taken these jobs?».
Migrants do not displace indigenous people
Holtz-Igin disprove the claim of the press Secretary of the White house. He noted that DACA even improves economic opportunities for low-skilled workersborn in America.
«The fact is that without work permits, illegal immigrants are more likely to go for any job. Even that, which is significantly below their skill level or education. While DACA allows migrants to legally occupy higher positions, freeing up many jobs for low-skilled Americans.»
According to Holtz-Igina, no immigration will not be able to displace the indigenous population. «We have experienced several waves of immigration and failed in the unemployment rate, the labor market is stable,» — said the expert.
The Americans have taken the place of foreign programmers…
But Jacqueline Varas, Director of immigration and trade policy at the American Action Forum believes that the influx of immigrant workers adds to economic growth and employment opportunities by increasing productivity.
«Many migrants DACA program have higher education, so they do not compete with low-skilled Americans,» said Varas.
She added: according to the National Bureau of economic research (NBER) found: immigrants and local workers are not interchangeable. Immigrants gravitate to a variety of jobs for different language skills, level of education and level of professional experience. As a result, increasing productivity in various sectors of the economy. In particular, one of the NBER studies have shown that a one per cent increase in employment of immigrants in each state leads to a 0.5 percent increase in income per worker.
The same study noted that the wages of U.S. workers in IT-sphere would be higher if the government limited highly skilled immigration. The country attracts a lot of foreign it specialists, competing with the us. However, this leads to higher offers in the labour market outside of IT.
What would happen if you deported all immigrants
The conclusion is simple: immigration has been and will be the engine of activity in the economy of the United States.
According to Economics Professor derrick Hamilton, many DACA recipients is the studentswho study and do not take away jobs.
According to the New American Economy, immigrants over the age of 21, eligible for DACA:
- 12% have a bachelor’s degree,
- 3% – the degree higher than a bachelor,
- 84% have graduated from high school and colleges
- 2% have not graduated from high school.
From the analysis of the panel of economists, Moody’s Analytics showed that if deported from America of illegal immigrants, it will cause a substantial economic downturn within just one year.
Another study by American Action Forum found: if all able-bodied immigrants were deported, American workers would not be enough to fill all open positions.
As for financial implications, the gross domestic product (GDP) of the States would be reduced by more than a trillion dollars. Particularly affected such sectors of economy as construction, hospitality, care of the elderly and ill people, as well as agriculture.
