Comment by fngjdflmdflg

>Yes, lots of people have immigrated, but they're a tiny fraction of those who wanted to immigrate

What point are you making here specifically? Are you saying the law is considered broken unless all or most people that want to come to the US can come? If so, the citizens (or at least the government) of the country are the ones that decide its laws, not people who want to immigrate to that country.

>H-1B is a good example, it counts as immigration but it is really not

The fist link I gave only includes green cards issued, it doesn't include H-1B visas to begin with. In any case, H-1B is not that significant a source of immigration, it seems to account for less than 1 million people in the US.[0] And it pays better than immigrating illegally in 99% of cases, most people would take that. Also by your own metric immigrating illegally isn't immigration either. I don't see what specific point you are making. Are you saying people come here illegally because they don't want to come via an H-1B visa, or are you just making a general point that immigration is not that high?

>The comparison with EU is not meaningful, especially since it isn't even a country

Then why does the worldbank include it? And why use OECD as a metric for anything if it isn't a country?

>population growth of the US and the world

The "highest in 100 years" statistic is in terms of percentage, so that shouldn't be relevant.

[0] https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/reports/U... "As of September 30, 2019, the H-1B authorized-to-work population is approximately 583,420."