Comment by megous
9 days ago
Does US have such a lack of space to fail to absorb 2-5% increase over years?
What's so hard about naturalizing or legalizing them, so that they can more easily interact with current power structures on the territory?
Capital city in the country where I live got a 25% population bump over a few months a few years back, of people who didn't even speak the language. Barely anything appretiably negative overall happened.
That fails to meet the need of having a bogeyman to get people to cheer you on as you recruit your brownshirts and start looting the coffers.