I am entirely against illegal immigration and much of the legal immigration we’re allowing currently.
I am simply observing that high-skill immigration both helps our economy and government coffers and helps to forestall more offshoring, whereas low-skill immigration is actually a net drag on our economy and government coffers and isn’t a useful response to international competition by keeping more desirable jobs at home.
I tend to believe that US citizen born ‘high skills’ have been eroded and even sacked for the quick and cheap money made by using cheap labor in other countries. The pursuit of ‘wealth’ in/by itself is not to be trash canned, but such pursuit that ignores the roots of achievement is a show of disdain for the roots.
This ought to be true in theory. It does not work so well in practice.
In practice we are not getting very much high-skill immigration. What we are getting is a subservient and mostly docile immigrant workforce that is used to disempower the natives. That is the entire point of it.
Rulers have been playing this game at least since Babylonian times. It generally works well for them, for as long as they live. In the long run, the immigrants become the new rulers.
As for the natives - they usually don't do so well.