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Originally posted by Frank W
I read recently that the US allowed the legal immigration of 1.1 Million people in the recently concluded Fiscal Year. These are LEGAL immigrants not undocumented migrants. Several questions are raised by this figure: can the US sustain this level of migration? what are the costs and benefits of this level of migration? what are the social, cultural, and psychological impact of this migration to the US? Do immigrants really take away American jobs or do they only take lower paid/lower status jobs that Americans would not want any way?
Since 1965, US Immigration policy is based on two core principles: family unification regardless of skill level of the relative being reunited with family already in the US and professional/skilled labor immigration.
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A study was done a few years ago based upon variants fed into a computer model. The model determined that the United States could sustain fifty million people for an indefinite period of time. The accuracy of the study was not considered to be 100%.
Just as a cattle rancher knows how many acres of land and water it takes to support x number of cows with out over grazing, over watering, and killing the soils ability to sustain his cattle, the same theory applies to the number of people the USA can support for an indefinite period of time. Immigration should be stopped permanently, and will have to be at some point, or the USA will just become another overpopulated third world nation.