Mass Immigration: More Harm than Good

Mass Immigration: More Harm than Good

The Quote Below—More Misinformation from the Media

“President-elect Joe Biden has rightly expressed the need to increase and improve permanent and temporary visas for employment. We hope his view will provide a foundation on which to build bipartisan support for long-elusive but urgently needed immigration reform. . . .

“Immigration during the past three decades is greater, on an annual basis, than the previous high point that occurred between 1900 and 1914, when almost 13 million immigrants were admitted to the United States.

“Immigration has been a net good for our country. Like all other developed nations, our total fertility rate has fallen below replacement. According to the CIA World Factbook, 141 nations have a higher fertility rate than we do. Our continued economic growth depends in large part on a growing workforce.” –- Biden Has Opportunity to Improve Immigration Law, The Editorial Staff, The Post and Courier, 11/17/20 [Link]

Fact Check on Quote Above: This editorial admits that we have an unprecedented level of immigration, yet somehow claims that we need even more. The notion that mass immigration for the past half century is a “net good” is questionable to say the least.

The America of fifty years ago was, relatively speaking, a strong and united country. But decades of “diversity” and “multiculturalism” fueled by immigration have eroded our confidence, identity, and national direction. Despite the claims that immigration always benefits the economy, the reality is that the economy of 50 years ago provided for a stronger and more vibrant middle class than today.

The claim that we must keep importing large numbers of foreign workers to keep the economy going is belied by the fact that the economy is making a major shift toward automation. According to credible studies, as many as forty percent of jobs now done by people in the U.S. will be automated by the end of the decade. In that situation we won’t be facing any shortage of labor.

A real threat to our economy, however, is the socialist ideology which has stifled economic development everywhere it’s been applied. Mass immigration is strengthening this ideology in the U.S. by admitting so many people from countries where the principles our free enterprise system are not well appreciated.

As a consequence, immigrants vote for the Democrats (the more socialistic of our parties) by a margin of two to one. California, which has the highest percentage and number of immigrants, is essentially a one-party Democratic state. It is also a state deemed often to have the worst climate for business in the U.S.

Another example of this trend is Georgia, until very recently a solid conservative state. But in the past presidential election it went for the Democrats, and now it has a Senate candidate, with a good chance of winning, who has endorsed socialism and Marxism. How did this happen? Again, immigration is a large part of the answer.

Immigration has surged in Georgia during the past twenty years. As Breitbart News notes, “The number of foreign-born voters and their voting-age children in Georgia has boomed by 337 percent between 2000 to 2020. Meanwhile, the native-born voting-age population in Georgia has increased by just 22 percent over that same period.” Ten percent of Georgia’s population today is foreign-born.

Mass immigration changes our country in ways that most American oppose. Reasonable limits on immigration allow us to keep the kind of country we prefer.

 

 

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