Illegal immigrants are taking our jobs. It's a claim that Donald Trump has repeated again and again. But ahead of the U.S. presidential elections in November, the facts show a different picture on immigration's economic impact.
The debate on immigration and its economic effects includes competing views: one highlighting competition with locals leading to low wages, and the other emphasizing immigrants filling vacancies caused by an aging population.
Giovanni Peri, economist at the University of California, emphasizes the oversimplification of the impact of migration on wages and employment, attributing effects erroneously by solely observing the correlation of migrants entering a market.
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