Migration is Life
Title: World News #103: Migration is Life
Subject: Migration, Immigration, and Policies
Created: 2025
Medium: Graphic Design
Software: Adobe Illustrator CC
Dimensions: 36″x48″
Articles
“Our view is simple: people are the ultimate resource. New people are not threats to suppress but assets to celebrate. We need people to transform natural resources into human resources, and in a free country, people seek to do just that. Immigrants are no different. Immigrants are workers, inventors, investors, and entrepreneurs.
Immigrants increase the supply of labor, which increases the supply of goods and services that people need; their consumption, entrepreneurship, and investment also increases the demand for labor, creating better-paying jobs for Americans elsewhere in the economy. Fundamentally, immigrants aren’t competitors. They are collaborators. Unfortunately, America’s immigration system fails to recognize this fact, leading to catastrophic consequences.”
– Cato.org, Unlocking America’s Potential: How Immigration Fuels Economic Growth and Our Competitive Advantage
“Immigration does not reduce the number of jobs available for U.S.-born workers and has provided a source of deflationary pressure in recent years. Macroeconomic policymakers like the Federal Reserve and Congress have both the necessary tools and the obligation to ensure that demand in the economy is strong enough to absorb willing workers in a reasonable amount of time. Historical periods when job opportunities have become scarce were not driven by increased immigration flows but instead by the failures of macroeconomic policymakers to respond in a timely fashion to weakness in demand for labor. Immigration flows generally do not make policymakers’ task of matching macroeconomic supply and demand any harder because immigrants add to both economywide supply (by increasing labor supply) and demand (by buying goods and services). Overall, immigrants likely tilt this balance more toward supply relative to U.S.-born workers, but only by a bit. This net supply increase is sometimes quite useful—by boosting supply a bit more than demand over the 2021–2023 period, immigration provided a source of deflationary pressure that helped bring inflation down in those years, while also assisting in preventing a recession. “
– Economic Policy Institute, The U.S. benefits from immigration but policy reforms needed to maximize gains
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World News
World News is a series of artworks by Ihanktonwan Dakota artist David Bernie that explores stories from around the world.
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