You mean aren't there already massive problems with high healthcare costs here? Yes. And housing costs. And car insurance costs. And property tax costs.
Having millions of foreigners here who are net-costs to taxpayers doesn't make it better it makes it worse. Cost of living goes down massively if we were to deport 30 million illegal aliens.
Then there's the H1B and other visas fiasco. Wages go up for Americans if this program is scrapped. Part of the discontent with Trump is he is not acting aggressively enough on any of this. So he has approval problems from all sides. And whether people agree with those like me that identify cost of living pressures as caused in large part by immigration, those same people and everyone else are going to have general "disapproval" and unhappiness with the effects.
When you have an average of 2.4 million new people pouring in for 4 years, the collateral damage is bad and eveyone is feeling it now.
Yes, that occurred to me, but the full number of foreign-born residents is in the 50-60mill range. I assumed if that was the goal they would have gone with the larger number cause it looks scarier, but no. There must be some weird middle ground where they only want to denaturalize some people, and I kinda want to know where they draw that line.
> "foreigners here who are net-costs to taxpayers"?
This is a straight up falsehood, using any measure you'd like. Why do regressives insist on just making things up to justify their prejudices?
The recent surge in immigration is going to lower the deficit by nearly $1 trillion over the next decade.
Unauthorized immigrants pay federal taxes yet receive no federal services. They commit less crime, fulfill unmet labor needs at both ends of the skill ladder, and cost less than the average American in terms of healthcare.
Your whole worldview is based on stuff you just made up in your head and right wing fever dreams.
Having millions of foreigners here who are net-costs to taxpayers doesn't make it better it makes it worse. Cost of living goes down massively if we were to deport 30 million illegal aliens.
Then there's the H1B and other visas fiasco. Wages go up for Americans if this program is scrapped. Part of the discontent with Trump is he is not acting aggressively enough on any of this. So he has approval problems from all sides. And whether people agree with those like me that identify cost of living pressures as caused in large part by immigration, those same people and everyone else are going to have general "disapproval" and unhappiness with the effects.
When you have an average of 2.4 million new people pouring in for 4 years, the collateral damage is bad and eveyone is feeling it now.