Immigrants help sustain job growth as inflation cools, economists say

Immigrants - both undocumented and legal - have helped keep the U.S. labor market on a steady roll in recent months without causing inflation. (Credit: Creative Commons)

While the G.O.P. insists in a rhetoric of the border crisis as a pressing "invasion" that endangers jobs for the native population, economists insist that, on the contrary, immigrants - both undocumented and legal - have helped keep the U.S. labor market on a steady roll in recent months without causing inflation.

That's what several analysts told NBC News for a recent article after Goldman Sachs told clients in May that the current dynamic of a booming job market - the U.S. economy added 272,000 jobs last month, according to a blockbuster report - and cooling inflation - prices were flat in May, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics - is partly the effect of increased immigration.