I read it won't affect too much. I think it says a lot about Democrats and where their priorities are. Everyone knows they're trying to import as many immigrants as they can who come from socialist countries and who always vote Democrat.
Democrats are fighting on behalf of DACA recipients: people brought to the United States as children, who have never known any other home, who are culturally American, who speak English, who have no criminal records, and who have no foreign home to which to return. The vast majority of Americans — including most Republicans — want these young people to be able to stay in the United States.
That's how they flipped California blue.
American citizens who live in California turned California blue because they stopped voting for Republicans. Prior to the early 1990s, California was a swing-to-Republican-leaning state. The state's politics didn't change because new people moved to California, but instead because Latino Americans living in California started voting for Democrats instead of Republicans. Surely you're not implying that these Latino American citizens' votes are illegitimate?
The other problem is that I believe only half of the country is working now, and supporting the other half.
The workforce participation rate in the United States is 63% amongst adults below retirement age. That is 4% lower than its peak of 67% in the late 1990s, and 5% higher than the participation rate in the 1960s. In other words: the share of American adults participating in the job market is in line with the last 50 years. As an overall share of the population, that is less than it used to be, because the child population is larger than it was a couple of decades ago, and the population above retirement is larger than it has ever been. Would you prefer that retirees and children were working?
Immigrants use government assistance at very high rates.
Immigrants use government assistance less than native-born Americans. More than 90% of people with DACA protections have a job, are paying taxes, etc. Immigrants from Africa and Asia are more likely to have college degrees and graduate degrees than native-born Americans.
I think if they can remake a city in Mexico, help them install new government, build a hospital, and help them grow their own economy is a way to show care for the worlds poor rather than destroying Americans in the process. It would be a truly more humane act all the way around. It would help more people overall.
Most immigrants to the United States are not from Mexico. Also, how would the United States "install a new government" in Mexico? Immigrants make America stronger, not weaker. We need an expansive and welcoming immigration system, one that includes a guest worker system and changes to border security to prevent renewed flows of illegal immigration.
