Swing states near the Great Lakes, such as Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin helped ensure an electoral college victory for Republican President-elect Donald Trump in last Tuesday’s elections. In exit polls, Rust Belt voters frequently cited “the economy” and “immigration” as the two most important issues motivating them to cast ballots.
Those issues are inextricably linked, but perhaps not in the way Trump and his followers have claimed. As it turns out, immigrants don’t steal American jobs, they create them.
A new report from the American Immigration Council and immigrant and refugee professional services organization Upwardly Global spotlights the impact immigrants have had in the urban and regional revival of the Great Lakes states. The new report is called Building Community and Fueling Growth: The Role of Immigrants in Reviving the Great Lakes Region.
Jina Krause-Vilmar is the CEO of Upwardly Global, and has decades of experience with refugee resettlement with the United Nations Development Program and the Near East Foundation. Jina Krause-Vilmar joined the Eight o’Clock Buzz by phone.
Featured image courtesy of the Upwardly Global website.
Web posting by WORT producer Nicholas Wootton.
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