By Jay Weiner of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Senior Vice President and Research Director of the Minneapolis Fed Mark Wright eloquently summed up data, dialogue, and differences:
“What’s clear to me is that, in the same way that immigration has played a very large role in shaping the history of this country, it is going to do so again in the future, one way or another,” Wright said. “The simple laws of demography and economics demand it.”
Then he added: “But what can’t get lost in purely thinking about the statistics, the spreadsheets, and the government budgets and how that’s affected by immigration, we also have to recognize that behind those statistics are the very real lives of many people, many families who are living in a great deal of uncertainty and great deal of difficulty right now.”
