But that is exactly what we are getting. Our legal immigration policies are importing poverty. We currently bring in about 1.2 million people a year with 25% of the adults lacking even a high school degree. 87% of them are minorities as defined by the USG. Immigrants use our welfare system to a much greater degree than the native born.
We do need a growing population.
Since 1965 our immigration policies have engendered the greatest mass migration of people in the shortest period of time in human history. The U.S. adds one international migrant (net) every 44 seconds. Immigrants account for one in 8 U.S. residents, the highest level in almost 90 years. In 1970 it was one in 21; in 1980 it was one in 16; and in 1990 it was one in 13. In less than a decade, it will be one in 7, the highest it has been in our history.
The U.S. immigrant population has doubled since 1990, nearly tripled since 1980, and quadrupled since 1970, when it stood at 9.7 million. Of the 40 million immigrants in the country in 2010, 13.9 million arrived in 2000 or later making it the highest decade of immigration in American history, even though there was a net loss of jobs during the same period. Our pro-population growth immigration policies have fueled more than three quarters of our population increase from 203 million in 1970 to 316 million today. We have added 35 million to our population since 2000 or almost the equivalent of another California. The U.S. population will increase another estimated 130 million over the next 40 years.
The McRubio-Schumer bill will bring in at least 33 million more legal immigrants over the next decade, which is more than the previous 40 years combined. And the bill doubles the number of temporary work visas with an increase of 1.6 million the first year and 600,000 a year thereafter. This during a period when 22 million Americans are underemployed or unemployed. This is the definition of insanity.
The US has a fertility rate of 2.06 just at replacement level. There is no demographic crisis re population growth.
Much of the problem with immigration is generated by state and local laws - zoning, permitting, and anti-competition regulations including taxation.
I don't know what you are talking about. Please be more specific.