In media interviews, farmers openly expressed fears that the decline in the number of illegal immigrants from Mexico and Central America, whom they hire, threaten the country's food security. Perhaps the way out was an analog of the Bracero Program: in the 50s - early 60s, the United States brought people from Mexico for temporary work in agriculture. But then the program was closed. By the way, this program then led to a 90% reduction in illegal immigration! But illegal immigrants work in large numbers in forestry, fisheries, construction, meat processing plants. The decline in legal immigration is also an emerging trend. Trump's policies have led to a 30% decrease in the number of legal immigrants coming to the United States in 2021, according to the National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP).
Due to anti-immigration measures, the annual growth in the labor force fell by 35%. "Such policies are detrimental to both the labor market and the growth rate of the economy," the NFAP said in a report.
Opponents of mass immigration insist that it leads to the loss of jobs for people born in the United States and lower wages. However, a number of studies, such as the report of Giovanni Peri, an expert at the University of California, suggest otherwise. In an interview with The New York Times this winter, Perry stressed that if fertility rates remain at their current levels and the immigration screws tighten, the economy will not grow at a high rate. Joe Biden’s new presidential team will overhaul Trump’s course on immigration. Let me remind you that Janet Yellen, whom the president-elect sees at the head of the Treasury, while still head of the Federal Reserve, has sharply criticized Trump's immigration decrees. Speaking to Congress in 2017, she said: “The number of people employed in our economy has decreased in recent years, and this is one of the reasons, along with a decrease in the growth rate of labor productivity, its low rates of development. Immigration is the most important source of labor. Its restriction can have a detrimental effect on the development of the country, ”the head of the Federal Reserve emphasized. The return of experts like Yelin promises a change in immigration policy in both the White House and the Treasury. The country will only benefit from changing this course. According to the Los Angeles Times, President Biden intends to submit his plan to legalize 11 million illegal immigrants to Congress in the near future. According to experts, this will be the most ambitious reform since 1986, when 3 million people received legal status. According to CBS News, the new president is urging his supporters to be patient. First, he intends, with the help of his decrees, to remove, firstly, all the barriers that Trump has erected to apply for refugee status on the US-Mexican border; secondly, to introduce a 100-day moratorium on deportation; thirdly, to ensure the protection of the so-called.Under the DACA program, created by the Obama administration to protect "dreamers" from deportation, they will be able to get the right to work for a period of 4 years.
Democrats, realizing that the adoption of large-scale immigration reform will require serious efforts, intend to resort to the practice of approving individual immigration measures.
