Sharp Cuts in Immigration Threaten US Economy and Innovation
The text is an article written by Austan Goolsbee. It was published in The New York Times on 11th of October, 2019.
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The information presented in this source is generally related to how a decrease in immigration negatively affects the US economy and innovation.
Immigration has decreased and fewer refugees will be accepted in the US
The article begins with a statistic on immigration (at the time when it was written), and the reason behind a decrease in immigration in 2018:
The latest data indicate that immigration to the United States fell 70 percent last year to only 200,000 people — the lowest level in more than a decade. Major causes of the decline, experts say, are the administration’s restrictions as well as the unwelcoming tone set by the president himself. (ll. 3-5)
The article also notes that the Trump administration moved away drastically from the previous administration’s stance on refugees, planning to implement significant restrictions on the number of refugees accepted (ll. 7-9).
