Zeke Hernandez

The simplest way I can put it is to use the five fingers of my hand, right?

In that immigrants bring five key economic inputs that everybody wants.

And they're the following.

First, they increase the amount of investment in your community.

Second, they bring talent, right?

They fill jobs and they bring skills.

Third, they bring innovation.

A lot of the new technologies, products, foods that you consume and make your life better were introduced by immigrants.

Fourth, they're consumers, so they buy the goods and services that are produced that businesses desperately want to sell.

And five, they pay taxes.

Now, I don't know anybody, I don't know any mayor, president,

governor, average citizen, business person that says, no, I do not want those five things, okay?

And of course, the numbers attached to those five things vary a little bit by country, but you can sort of put it in the bank that immigrants will bring those five things.

And those five things are what creates jobs, what causes the economy to grow.

Again, to use an example from the United States, because it's a country that I study the most, right?

We know that immigrants are nearly one in five workers in the US, but more than one in five in key sectors that we depend on, both high and low skill.

Immigrants are responsible for over a third of all patents in the United States.

That is a staggering amount of innovation.

Immigrants have well over a trillion dollars in spending power, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

And we can kind of quantify the same for different countries.