Depends on the type of LEGAL immigrants we’re getting. If they are entrepreneural, brainiacs, educated, law abiding, and willing to assimilate and obey our laws, I don’t see any problems with that. We don't have a merit based system. We have a kinship system that brings in hundreds of thousands of high school dropouts annually. And do we really need 1.2 million immigrants a year while 20 million Americans are unemployed or underemployed? Immigrants are taking jobs from Americans and depressing wages. If we truly had a shortage of labor, wages would be increasing, not decreasing.
These immigrants send over $48 billion a year back to their home countries. And immigrants vote more than two to one Democrat.
The bulk of the legal immigrants we allow in are not ready for a tech and robotics type of economy. They are not much better than the illegal aliens as far as education and English proficiency. Many people are under the mistaken impression that legal immigrants tend to be skilled and responsible compared to the illegals.