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>> It's hard to believe that USA needs 2.25 million people extra every year. Just look at the numbers: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/08/immigra

>> It's hard to believe that USA needs 2.25 million people extra every year. Just look at the numbers: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/08/immigration-projected-to-drive-growth-in-u-s-working-age-population-through-at-least-2035/ http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/08/immigration-... Basically, we do need millions of immigrants per year to keep the working-age population high enough so as to support retiring Baby Boomers.

burfog 8y ago
Who will support the immigrants? https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/09/01/immigrant-welfare-use-report/71517072/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/09/01/immigr... With most of their households receiving some form of welfare, it doesn't seem like this helps with the Baby Boomers at all. Lots of non-immigrants are also unemployed. If anything, we have too many working-age people for the jobs available. With more and more robot-like replacements for workers (kiosks, self-driving, etc.) it sure seems foolish to get more low-skill people. What will they do for a living?