It’s incredibly cynical to whine about poverty in the US, and the “gap” between rich and poor, while importing tens of millions of some of the poorest people on Earth.
@ post 9 - right on the mark. Add in the automation of future tech in robotics/computers that will eliminate many low wage jobs and it becomes even more foolish to import unskilled laborers.
IMHO “cynicism” is best defined as negative superficiality. Negative superficiality comes naturally to journalists; “If it bleeds, it leads” promotes negativity, and deadlines assure superficiality."It is not the critic who counts . . . the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena - From Theodore Roosevelt's 1910 speech at the Sorbonneis the very opposite of cynicism. “You didn’t build that” is the very apotheosis of it.
Importing poor people is one thing but importing those who hate us is long-term national suicide.