Indeed, if one looks back to the Great Depression, that’s when the US (led by FDR) instituted some very draconian immigration controls to prop up the labor market that wasn’t making enough jobs. These controls held down our rate of population growth (and were partly responsible for the very high standard of living post-WWII) until that drunken Irishman (but I repeat myself) named Ted Kennedy put through the backbone of the modern no-limits immigration system in 1965.
NVDave, I was with you until you talked about holding down population growth and the post WW II era. Perhaps you were talking about the population growth prior to the end of the war.
At any rate, I do strongly support a cessation of all immigration for the next 20 to 30 years.
We’ve got some mending to do, or we don’t continue on as a unified nation.