[Ramius]

The entire basis of your “jobs Americans wont do” argument is that Americans are lazy. Your fundamental assumption is false.

It's false, but nobody is saying that it is because Americans are lazy. It is that we have more jobs than people available to fill them. There's also nothing particularly wrong with that. Also, it's healthier from an economic standpoint that those unfilled jobs are toward the bottom of the wage scale. Millions of unfilled jobs at the *top* of the wage scale would be a far more serious problem.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

Mass immigration does expand the economy, at least many sectors of it. But at what price? When there’s 1 billion or 2 in the country would be that enough or do we keep importing more for the sake of profits? Does heritage, language, and culture count for anything in all of this or is the US just a shopping mall where consumers come and go to do business?

[kinoxi]

That is a rather convoluted statement. Many high paying jobs have been leaving this country for decades. We import many of those ‘high paying jobs’ back right now. Undercutting (pay wise) our workforce with non taxed illegals is not healthy no matter how you would try to slice it.

[Nova]

"Millions of unfilled jobs at the *top* of the wage scale would be a far more serious problem."

I don't mean to be impolite, but that is complete nonsense.

[Nova]

"it's healthier from an economic standpoint that those unfilled jobs are toward the bottom of the wage scale."

I guess that's really your central point that I'm calling nonsense.