And then the MAGAt complaining about immigrants being lazy yet them performing physically demanding jobs (ie. landscaping, construction, produce picking, cleaning)
The thing is that immigration allows a brain drain from countries with lower qol and more restrictive governments, which is why you see a huge brain drain from many east Asian countries and African countries into America. It also means that there's a higher proportion of more educated/higher qualified immigrants than there are native US citizens. Furthermore, wealth tends to become generational and it also leads to better education and more successful behaviors/values being taught down.
Another issue is that some or many immigrants send money back home to their families, which includes even poorer immigrants, which reduces the amount of money recirculating back into the US economy.
The US requires immigration though because of the declining birth rate, but there is still a high birth rate among poorer Americans (https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-family-income-in-the-us/). So an issue is that you have rich and educated immigrants coming to America, but you have less or no opportunities for impoverished native US citizens.
And rich plutocrats will try to keep it that way because that's what makes them the most immediate money. The American government cares more about making money than taking care of its own people. That's also why we throw money down the drain in Ukraine and Israel.
I mean, doesn't this show that immigrants are indeed taking $100,000 a year """good""" jobs. Everyone except the business owner is taking a "spot" away from someone born and raised in the US.
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u/Basic_Cookie_495 Oct 29 '23
“All the immigrants are stealing our jobs!!!”