Comment by mbgerring
17 hours ago
You lost me in the first sentence, with the premise that immigrants are “overburdening” our social services. Most immigrants work. Most immigrants come here specifically to work. They pay taxes. Immigrants who commit social security fraud have taxes deducted from their income that they will never collect in the form of social services. Most of the immigrants receiving public assistance (like, for example, asylum seekers) are doing so because our government doesn’t allow them to work, even if they want to. The solution is to let immigrants work.
> with the premise that immigrants are “overburdening” our social services. Most immigrants work.
I just want to point to a flaw in your reasoning.The point is not that immigrants are some special kind of human beings that require more assistance. It is just that immigration can unlike natural population growth, result in arbitrary population growth in a short amount of time.
From that view point, it makes sense that immigrants can overburden the social services, because the latter does not get a chance to accommodate the increased population properly, causing additional suffering to existing population.
It would have to be an extremely fast influx to cause real problems along those lines. Social services are able to handle a growing case load with growing budget pretty well.
That totally depends on the existing population of the state/region in question...
You can't grow doctors on tree just because you now get more funding. It take 6+ years to train a doctor while people can cross a border and grow the population right now.
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