OPINION: Immigration Is No Fix for an Aging Society

Posted on AllSides July 8th, 2019
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OPINION

Its effects on programs like Social Security are tiny.

We hear it all the time. During the recent primary debate, Joe Biden said illegal immigrants “increased the lifespan of Social Security.” America must have large numbers of immigrants to “rebuild the demographic pyramid,” in the words of Jeb Bush.

To be sure, Americans have had small families for quite some time, and life expediency has increased. Our population is aging. But there is a significant amount of research on how much immigration can offset population aging in low-fertility countries such...

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