Regarding population and economic growth, explain India … we should not aspire to be India or Indonesia 

Bell_curve

The main incentive is importing left wing voters. I have a friend whose wife came illegally from Guatemala. Now she is a citizen who votes left. This isn’t right. Total BS she can vote 

TBC, I'm not condoning it. I am *trying* to describe the **incentives**. US population (based on birth rates) is set to decline without immigration. Turns out when you saddle people expanding debt, diminishing wages, and rising cost of living, they don't want to reproduce. 

Crime is good for a police state. They give you the problem *and* the solution, which is always the expansion of state administrative powers. 

orange_crush

Growth of Democrat voters is a dealbreaker. 

Hispanics have the second largest incarceration rate in USA. 

25 to 30 percent of prison population is foreign born. 

9-11 terrorists had expired tourist visas. 

Regarding population growth, USA population is currently 330 million. How much growth can we support? 1 billion?


econ

Does the Economy Need Migrants? and related discussion

elvismercury

In the US, illegal immigration may help to keep wages artificially low (bad for workers, good for employers), ensures future population growth (good for economic growth, bad for government obligations), and supports growth of the democratic national party membership (good for democrats, bad for republicans). 

It's a nuanced issue here. 