You mean aren't there already massive problems with high healthcare costs here? Yes. And housing costs. And car insurance costs. And property tax costs.
Having millions of foreigners here who are net-costs to taxpayers doesn't make it better it makes it worse. Cost of living goes down massively if we were to deport 30 million illegal aliens.
Then there's the H1B and other visas fiasco. Wages go up for Americans if this program is scrapped. Part of the discontent with Trump is he is not acting aggressively enough on any of this. So he has approval problems from all sides. And whether people agree with those like me that identify cost of living pressures as caused in large part by immigration, those same people and everyone else are going to have general "disapproval" and unhappiness with the effects.
When you have an average of 2.4 million new people pouring in for 4 years, the collateral damage is bad and eveyone is feeling it now.
Yes, that occurred to me, but the full number of foreign-born residents is in the 50-60mill range. I assumed if that was the goal they would have gone with the larger number cause it looks scarier, but no. There must be some weird middle ground where they only want to denaturalize some people, and I kinda want to know where they draw that line.
> "foreigners here who are net-costs to taxpayers"?
This is a straight up falsehood, using any measure you'd like. Why do regressives insist on just making things up to justify their prejudices?
The recent surge in immigration is going to lower the deficit by nearly $1 trillion over the next decade.
Unauthorized immigrants pay federal taxes yet receive no federal services. They commit less crime, fulfill unmet labor needs at both ends of the skill ladder, and cost less than the average American in terms of healthcare.
Your whole worldview is based on stuff you just made up in your head and right wing fever dreams.
Crime rates? Nothing to do with immigrants. They commit less crimes than Americans.
Healthcare costs? Nothing to do with immigrants. Don't believe lies about unauthorized immigrants getting Medicaid, it doesn't happen.
Insurance rates? Nothing to do with immigrants.
Why would we support people wanting to emigrate to the U.S.? We are a nation of immigrants. Full stop. It is our greatest strength. Name an American with Mayflower ancestry who has done anything of any note in the past 100 years. It's all immigrants and their first generation children.
I'm sure you're totally fine with Elon and Melania, you just don't like brown immigrants.
And again, besides pleasing your political hatred, how does deporting anyone make you happy?
You are wrong on almost every metric, and I hope someday you'll see how much so.
Housing is the fault of NIMBYs and real estate speculation. Healthcare costs are not high because of illegal immigrants (mainly), it is due to a broken private health insurance system your party defends. At the cost of scaring the rest of the world away from ever wanting to be in this country, legally or not, while we disintegrate our political and economic power in the world. A Russian patriot as president of the United States could not do more damage to our country than your supported policies are doing to us, for years to come, today.
Do we need fewer migrants coming in? Yes. Do we need to target violent criminals of any kind thoroughly? Yes. Is this skin-color-based mass manhunt being done by the dregs of wannabe law enforcement (combined with every other idiotic, anti-American policy this president has pursued) worth it? No.
