Comment by qsera
16 hours ago
> 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.
Are doctors usually underrepresented among legal immigrants? I could see it actually helping out with our self-inflicted doctor supply problems.
Also the "all immigration happens overnight" plan is obviously a bad way to handle things. That lag wouldn't be a big deal if we 'merely' instantly doubled the rate we issue green cards and ramped up from there, just to make up some numbers.
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