We’ve been informed that low-skill migrants, as a matter of Scientific fact, are positively correlated with U.S. economic growth (at least aggregate growth if not per-capita!). Low-skill migrants have been departing that U.S. at an unprecedented rate since the Trump Dictatorship v2.0 began (CIS; NYT (covers a different time period than the CIS analysis)).
Toda we learn from the Wall Street Journal that the aggregate GDP is expanding even as the migrant population shrinks.
Maybe the GDP numbers are wrong? We can see for ourselves that valuable Somalis and Latinx are being kidnapped by ICE (should we try to fight ICElamophobia?). We know that these folks are worth $billions even though there is not another country on Planet Earth that is willing to take the migrants whom we deport (i.e., no other country wants to be enriched as we have been). If the GDP data are correct, could the apparent contradiction be explained by The Science being merely a projection of researchers’ love for migrants? “Why immigration research is probably biased” (Guenther, December 20, 2025):
All of these choices resulted in 1,261 submitted models; no two were identical. Notably, this heterogeneity arose even though the hypothesis and data were the same! Think how much freedom researchers have when they are allowed to choose the hypothesis and the data.
It is not necessarily problematic if researchers are more liberal than the general public, but it is problematic if these attitudes make them analyse data in a biased way, to arrive at conclusions that reinforce their prior attitudes. In that case, immigration research ceases to be research and transitions into propaganda, where only hypotheses are tested that one can anticipate to portray immigration positively, and the research design is chosen to obtain the desired conclusion.
Related:
- Immigrants expand our economy, but millions of immigrants exiting the U.S. don’t shrink our economy
- Testing the religion of immigration (could immigration solve fiscal problems, e.g., keeping Social Security and Medicare Ponzi schemes going? (answer: a resounding yes, so long as you import immigrants who don’t themselves age))
> We’ve been informed that low-skill migrants, as a matter of Scientific fact, are positively correlated with U.S. economic growth
You think, having a research claiming the following can stomached and written about by the contemporary newspapers? Citations are a contemporary measure of the “usefulness” of the work, of course.
> Low-skill migrants, are negatively correlated with U.S. economic growth
Does lower violent crime and grand larceny lead to a higher GDP? That has got to be a factor somewhere in the equation. Maybe someone missed it.
(You still have time to get that end-of-year bonus cash for self-deporting, immigrants. Call now. Terms and conditions may apply.)