Have you checked the price and congestion of ocean coastal properties lately. You know, the places where people really want to live?
There's only so much really nice real estate in this country.
As the population grows, a smaller and smaller percentage of Americans can be privileged to own that best land because there is only so much of it.
And they keep dividing that land into smaller and smaller parcels, packing people in so densely that the natural beauty of the places is ruined.
And so we become less and less prosperous.
A below replacement birth rate is a good thing, as we are already too crowded.
Maybe where you want to live. I prefer to live inland and not have to worry about hurricanes and floods, thanks.
But the rising price of beach-front property isn't a function of immigration -- certainly not immigration of poor people who couldn't afford to buy any property, let alone prime real estate. It's a function of economic property.
The more people get rich, the more there are who want the choicest real estate. That's where the demand that drives the price of beach-front property up come from, not from immigration.
So what you really want, if you want the price of beach-front property to come down is economic collapse. That would take care of it nicely.
Mind you, we get a declining population and that would make the economic collapse would be that much more likely. So I guess there is some logic there.
So there it is: You can't afford your dream home, so, dang it, you don't want to see kids adopted from outside the country. Niiiiice.....
A below-replacement birth rate might be a good thing IF the borders were closed. With the borders open, a low birthrate results, not in population reduction, but simply population REPLACEMENT.