Pathway to citizenship for 10 million would boost GDP by $1.7 trillion.
June 16, 2021
Granting a pathway to citizenship to all of the undocumented immigrants in the United States would boost the nation’s economy by $1.7 trillion over the next decade while creating 438,800 new jobs. This is according to a new report by the Center for American Progress (CAP) and the University of California, Davis, that modeled the different economic outcomes based on scenarios where different groups of undocumented immigrants were granted a pathway to citizenship. According to the report, granting a pathway to citizenship for all the 10.2 million would boost the GDP by $1.7 trillion and raise the average wage of those immigrants by $4,300 over five years and $11,800 over 10 years.