Currently people born outside the US make up ~15% of population in the USA. Let’s say you want to increase that to 20% over $x years. Now you need 5% more hous

Currently people born outside the US make up ~15% of population in the USA. Let’s say you want to increase that to 20% over $x years. Now you need 5% more houses, 5% more cars, 5% more electricity, 5% more infrastructure, and ~33% more immigrant support services. Immigration is not a simple sticky-plaster - it has deep impacts on every part of your country’s infrastructure and services. It can work, but it ain’t easy: I live in New Zealand where ~30% of our population is people that were not born here (New Zealand is quite picky about who gets to come here, so we have less structural problems than some European countries that accept large numbers of refugees with little opportunity to filter for the most suitable people). New Zealand has been building housing at a fast pace to keep up with the ~50% increase over the “native” population. How many places in the US can absorb the pressures of increasing immigrant numbers?