No serious economist claims that immigration is "good for everyone." Borjas has created a strawman to knock down. Virtually any policy creates both winners and losers. The more standard claim is that immigration is Kaldor-Hicks efficient. The wealth it creates for the winners-capitalists, consumers of immigrant services, and immigrants-is greater than the income lost by those whose labor directly competes with immigrants' labor. Borjas's own estimates are consistent with this consensus. In fact, as Borjas claims in his book, "There is, in fact, little disagreement in the findings. It all depends on the spin" (2016, 108). Borjas's spin seems less reasonable than his critics'.
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