it was basically how the US was run until the 1920s Before the 1920s, there was little incentive to immigrate to the US if your motivation was to be a ward of

it was basically how the US was run until the 1920s Before the 1920s, there was little incentive to immigrate to the US if your motivation was to be a ward of the state. Since the 1920s, our welfare state has grown by leaps and bounds. The people coming illegally to this country are less likely to be the ones seeking to be producers. They're more likely to be the ones wanting services. The article barely gave a nod to it, but the numbers show that the recent waves of immigrants use several times the amount of social services as natives, but they offer very little productivity-wise or intellectual capital-wise. It's a bad deal for the US, made worse by the fact that the people we're most encouraging to immigrate from our corrupt neighbor to the south are the citizens least likely to care that they're breaking the law by being here. expand rather than just be preserved I'm not talking about rigidly maintaining the status quo. I'm talking about managed growth through accepting immigrants using a process that is fair to incoming immigrants from ALL countries and is respectful of the society that fostered something worth immigrating to.