Immigrants are driving a surprisingly strong US economy, and it hasn't come at the expense of American workers, Nobel laureate Paul Krugman says

• Immigrants are helping to prop up a strong US economy, Nobel economist Paul Krugman wrote in a New York Times op-ed.
• He argues that their positive labor-market impact hasn't come at the expense of American workers.
• "Are immigrants taking jobs away from native-born Americans? No," Krugman wrote.

Immigrants are the secret force driving a surprisingly strong US economy, Nobel laureate Paul Krugman wrote in a recent New York Times op-ed.

The premise of his argument is a comparison of the current US economy with Congressional Budget Office forecasts made before the pandemic. He finds that both real GDP and employment have exceeded those projections.