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Do states import immigrants because they want to make the world a better place, ir because they want to fix their own broken birth rates and prevent the country from dying out? I think no state takes in immigrants for humanitarian reasons. They all do it because some spreadsheet warrior has calculated that each dollar invested into an immigrant, the immigrant will eventually bet the state many more dollars in tax money. Of course those calculations are hugely flawed, similar to our climate models or Keynesian economic models.
This is retarded. 1. Millions of people can still be helped 2. USA has little agency to help the other 5bn 3. The millions that do immigrate send remittances so the impact is greatly multiplied 4. The millions that do immigrate have a positive economic impact (granted, not for everyone) Agree US immigration policy is not the total solution to world poverty, but no one is arguing that it is. Clearly a small, but helpful element.