Migrants and refugees from Venezuela huddle around a fire near the US-Mexico border [File: John Moore/Getty Images/AFP]
Washington Examiner: About 160M people would like to immigrate to the US. Here's what that means
Currently, Americans aren’t reproducing at the replacement rate. So, some level of immigration will be needed in order to prevent a disastrous population implosion.
But how much immigration should we have, and on what basis should we select our immigrants?
When someone in a poorer country says she wants to become an American, it’s not nice to say no. It also makes me a bit uneasy for our government to select would-be immigrants based on the purported “value” of those immigrants. On the other hand, an immigration lottery is so arbitrary that it seems its own sort of cruelty.
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WNU Editor: 160 million would like to immigrate to the US, but 900 million worldwide wanted to migrate in 2021 .... Nearly 900 Million Worldwide Wanted to Migrate in 2021 (Gallup).
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