Mass migration is bad economics, President Donald Trump told an audience of Europeans at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday.
Trump Tells Davos: Big Migration Is Bad Economics
“Our previously open and dangerous border is closed and virtually impenetrable, and the United States is in the midst of the fastest and most dramatic economic turnaround in our country’s history,” he declared, adding:
Under the [pro-migration] Biden administration, America was plagued by the nightmare of stagflation, meaning low growth and high inflation, a recipe for misery, failure, and decline. But now, after just one year of my policies, we’re witnessing these opposite — virtually no inflation at an extraordinarily high economic growth.
The advice came as the leaders of the multistate European Union are promising a huge trade deal with India that will likely accelerate the huge inflow of productivity-reducing foreign workers into Europe’s semi-stagnant economy. The migrants damage productivity and innovation, partly by taking jobs and homes from increasingly alienated young Europeans.
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen predicts the deal will be the “Mother of Deals.
BREAKING:
Trump says that Europe should follow the U.S. in putting a halt to mass-immigration and stop transfering its manufacturing capabilities to third countries.
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Trump has repeatedly sketched his plans to grow the economy via automation and productivity instead of more migration. “We’re going to need robots … to make our economy run because we do not have enough people,” he told Breitbart News in August, adding:
We don’t enough people to do it. So we have to get efficient … we’ll probably add to [the existing workforce] through robotically—it’s going to be robotically … It’s going to be big. Then, somebody is going to have to make the robots. The whole thing, it feeds on itself … we’re going to streamline things. We need efficiency.
That low-migration/high-productivity view is increasingly shared by U.S. investors and CEOs. But it is bitterly opposed by the alliance of progressives and investors who gain from the 1990s policy of Extraction Migration.
Trump told the Davos meeting:
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