It also doesn't help adding close to 3 million people in a year to the domestic population (not through births or official visa process), during a time of risin

It also doesn't help adding close to 3 million people in a year to the domestic population (not through births or official visa process), during a time of rising construction costs, and not expecting that to cause an affordability and availability crisis on the lower ends of the market. It's not a problem for wine/microbrew drinking political commentators who aren't competing for finite low skill employment opportunities and lower cost housing, but their feigned altruism has an obvious second order effect for working class.