JoeB131
Diamond Member
Actually, we NEVER needed immigration. Immigration was popular when they wanted unsuspecting white people to come here to be exploited in the 19th century, but the world would have been a happier place if we just kept "America" on the East coast without exploiting First Nations by displacing them with white folks. Now the white folks are finding people who are related to other first nations are coming here and they don't like it. Amusing.There was a time in the United States absolutely needed immigration so there was no question to be had in the matter. Now it's a question of how much we can handle and we're handling too much. Unless of course you want to turn around on your own ethics and insist that the pie be cut in as many pieces as there are people demanding them but then again you really haven't made any personal sacrifices yourself have you? You don't have a spare bedroom with an immigrant family in it.
You probably don't live on a border state. Pretending to care about welfare of the average American family and at the same time destroying that welfare makes you look like a fool.
The problem with your pie analogy is that it's faulty. First, the pie is hardly fairly dividied now when 1% of the population has 41% of the wealth. Secondly the "pie" isn't finite. When immigrants come here, they create value through labor and commerce through consumption. I would say about 10% of my customers in my side business are immigrants.
As far as sharing my home with an immigrant. My wife is an immigrant. Sometimes she hogs the covers.
The only border state I see whining is Texas, and that's mostly because of Abbot's cruelty and mismanagement. I am barely hearing a peep out of AZ, NM and CA on the topic, and they aren't dropping off buses of people in the freezing cold to make cheap political points.
Your side had resisted immigration reform for decades, and now the chickens have come home to roost.