After ILLEGAL Immigration is eradicated, we can look at the appropriate levels of Legal Immigration. Do the existing levels add up to "Mass Levels"? I'm not sure about the answer to that one.
"...what do you think is an appropriate level of legal immigration? Is the current one million annually not enough?"
Maybe it is, maybe it isn't...I believe the present situation--in which ILLEGAL Immigration is so rampant--taints our ability to determine what is the "right" number of immigrants to allow in every year. The number cannot be so large that we cannot hope to assimilate the newcomers into our culture.
"I'm still amazed that some people will base their confidence so much on past successes in assimilating mass waves of immigrants, yet seemingly ignore the great differences between now and then. Some of these differences include, but are not limited to, the modern existence of welfare, racial preferences, multiculturalism, and of course the lack of any reduction in sight like the one in the early 1920s that ended the European wave and allowed the US over 40 yrs of moderate immigration, which no doubt fascillitated the process of assimilation."
Good points, and I'd like to add that there should be a 3-year moratorium on newcomers receiving welfare and no retirees should be allowed to access a Social Security system they did not pay into.
FReegards...MUD