You wouldn’t be wrong if it were a purely numerical game, but it’s not. You might not be wrong if I were advocating for entirely open borders with minimal to no immigration process, but I’m not. I’m saying that the US needs to stop making it so damn difficult to come here, and to offer more respect to the people that choose to come here. Immigration’s effect on the economy, throughout the history of the US, has been overall a positive one: https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2016/1/27/the-effects-of-immigration-on-the-united-states-economy
Many hands make light work. More labourers means more labour wages, means more money flying around the economy, means more available and cheaper products and services for everyone - this includes housing stock. I don’t believe that densification automatically equals lower quality of life, or that more individuals automatically equals fewer individual freedoms. Those statements seem to be the crux of your argument, but they look like flawed premises to me, so data to support them is required.
This is all quite aside from the fact that right here, right now, we’re talking about asylum seekers. This is a humanitarian issue, and the number of people actually seeking asylum is a relative drop in the bucket to the overall population. Asylum seekers alone won’t double anyone’s population; they’ll barely even move the needle, from 333 million to 334 million in the case of the US.
You wouldn’t be wrong if it were a purely numerical game, but it’s not. You might not be wrong if I were advocating for entirely open borders with minimal to no immigration process, but I’m not. I’m saying that the US needs to stop making it so damn difficult to come here, and to offer more respect to the people that choose to come here. Immigration’s effect on the economy, throughout the history of the US, has been overall a positive one: https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2016/1/27/the-effects-of-immigration-on-the-united-states-economy
Many hands make light work. More labourers means more labour wages, means more money flying around the economy, means more available and cheaper products and services for everyone - this includes housing stock. I don’t believe that densification automatically equals lower quality of life, or that more individuals automatically equals fewer individual freedoms. Those statements seem to be the crux of your argument, but they look like flawed premises to me, so data to support them is required.
This is all quite aside from the fact that right here, right now, we’re talking about asylum seekers. This is a humanitarian issue, and the number of people actually seeking asylum is a relative drop in the bucket to the overall population. Asylum seekers alone won’t double anyone’s population; they’ll barely even move the needle, from 333 million to 334 million in the case of the US.