News US official data show that around 282,000 people received green cards for permanent residence between June and September 2021, the highest quarterly number since the period from April to June 2017.
The statistics also show an increase in arrivals to the United States of business visitors, guest workers, international students and other temporary legal migrants. But, analyse le Pew Research Centerthis numbers “are still well below their pre-pandemic averages.”
9.5 million immigrants waiting
These figures also mask a significant shortfall in terms of immigration, lift him up Washington Post : “There are 9.5 million people waiting for their legal immigration documents to be processed by the US government. These include people applying for work permits, asylum, green cards or citizenship. This is an unprecedented backlog.”
Because there is urgency in terms of employment, continues the daily, the country counting 11 million vacancies and 6 million unemployed.
‘There might as well be a giant poster’We hire !’ over the United States. The economy rebounded quickly from pandemic lows […] and companies are frantically trying to recruit enough workers to meet the increased demand for everything.”
Pour CBS Newsthe equation is simple: “The labor shortage in the United States is actually an immigrant shortage.” By one calculation, the channel writes, the U.S. workforce today has 2 million fewer immigrants than it would have if immigration had continued at pre-pandemic levels.
A “broken” immigration system
Until the middle of the last decade, the country welcomed about one million immigrants a year, but this number has decreased under the administration of Trump and “hit a wall” during the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020. This decline in immigration, the aging of the population and the retirement of baby boomers are adding to the labor problems of companies, continues CBS News.
More, supports the Boston Herald, “Americans of all political stripes agree that our immigration system is broken”. The daily believes that a reform is necessary. “Companies desperately need workers. Millions of legal immigrants want to work in the United Statesconcludes the Washington Post. It shouldn’t be that hard to solve.”
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