Moody’s Mark Zandi: Strict immigration policies won’t mean more jobs for US workers

Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi recently said that the strict immigration policies do not necessarily translate into more or better job opportunities for native-born workers. In a series of posts shared on social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) Zandi argued that both foreign-born and native born workers has been trending higher and now exceeds the rate for foregin-born workers, undermining claims that tighter immigration boosts wages and employment for US-born workers. “The job market is struggling — and not just for foreign-born workers. Native-born workers are having a tough go of it, too. It wasn’t supposed to be this way, according to proponents of stiffer immigration policy.