Blacks have the highest abortion rates. The black population of the US would be twice what it is today. Abortion aside,wealthy countries have lower than replacement fertility rates, i.e., below 2.1. Europe, Japan, the US, Canada, and even China and Iran have low fertility rates, which just aren't a function of abortion.
Immigration drives 80% of our population growth. The 1965 Immigration Act transformed the demography of the US forever. This is a new development, which has taken place over the past 50 years. We have witnessed the greatest peaceful mass migration in history. There are 45 million foreign born in this country. We are being colonized by the Third World.
Immigration, legal and illegal, has had and will continue to have a major and far-reaching impact across a broad spectrum of existential challenges that confront this nation, e.g., national security, the economy/global competitiveness, jobs, health care, taxes, energy independence, education, entitlement reform, law enforcement, social welfare programs, physical infrastructure, the environment, civil liberties, and a continued sense of national identity/shared sense of endeavor. Immigration is the defining issue of our time with enormous implications for the future of this nation and the preservation of our patrimony. Yet, seldom will you hear immigration mentioned by our political and intellectual elites in connection with these challenges.
We need a national discussion of immigration as a matter of public policy free of emotion. It has nothing to do with racism and bigotry.
I agree with you 100% on this.
I think we need a national discussion on a lot of things that are tangentially related to immigration and have major implications for us as a nation. Get rid of most taxpayer-funded services, for example, and you'd see a lot of the problems related to immigration disappear.