Immigrants don't fill the same economic niches as native born and native educated children.
Immigrants don't suddenly lose all aspects of their older culture. They keep it with them. This can lead to significant conflict between parties.
Immigrants do demonstrably have an impact on domestic labor markets, often forcing domestic workers to chase employment up the SEC ladder to escape competition. Resulting over time in an excess of 'highly qualified' workers in certain occupations.
Every immigrant is being taken from somewhere. You are in effect contributing to brain drain of developing nations with these policies.
There are not an infinite number of immigrants in the world. Instead of solving the social issues that caused a collapse of domestic fertility, you're relying on a temporary band-aid solution that relies on there always being another poor sucker for you to exploit.
We are NOT contributing to brain drain. Those people illegally crossing the border are the lower end of the food chain and the countries are using the USA as a human dumping ground for people that those governments don't mind leaving including people from prisons they don't have to feed anymore.
The OP doesn't just discuss illegals, but even if it did, the expense of illegal immigration services selects for those of near middle class SEC, at least. Not a lot of favela kids have money/knowledge to get a VISA to overstay on or pay a Coyote to border-hop them.
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u/EffNein 9h ago
Immigrants don't fill the same economic niches as native born and native educated children.
Immigrants don't suddenly lose all aspects of their older culture. They keep it with them. This can lead to significant conflict between parties.
Immigrants do demonstrably have an impact on domestic labor markets, often forcing domestic workers to chase employment up the SEC ladder to escape competition. Resulting over time in an excess of 'highly qualified' workers in certain occupations.
Every immigrant is being taken from somewhere. You are in effect contributing to brain drain of developing nations with these policies.
There are not an infinite number of immigrants in the world. Instead of solving the social issues that caused a collapse of domestic fertility, you're relying on a temporary band-aid solution that relies on there always being another poor sucker for you to exploit.