President Trump is planning to stop issuing work visas to temporary migrant workers on most visa categories for at least the rest of the year and probably until the end of his administration. The president says he wants to keep migrants from taking jobs from Americans, but new workers don’t just take jobs — they create them.
Companies hire workers to produce what consumers want. The more consumers want, the more production and hiring is needed. But where does this consumer demand come from? It comes from the wages that consumers received as workers, wages based on the worker’s productivity. This means that every time a company employs a worker to increase production, it indirectly creates demand for other workers at other companies.
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