by Selwyn Duke, American Thinker:
It’s funny, the discussions we never have, even when they involve that proverbial elephant in the room. Here’s one:
Since the U.S.’s population is only increasing because of immigration, when do we decide we have enough people and end it?
Our population is now 343.6 million, up from 338.3 million in 2021. This itself is up from 311.2 million in 2010, 282.4 million in 2000, 223.1 million in 1980, 176.2 million in 1960, and 148.3 million in 1950. Oh, I know we Americans are sometimes concerned with being number one, but we’re already the world’s third most populous nation. Will we only be happy when our population exceeds India’s 1.451 billion? (Yes, India seized the title from China a while back.)
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Now, there are some people who apparently yearn for a Soylent Green situation. For example, commentator Glenn Beck — whose political and social prescriptions range from brilliant to boneheaded — insists we must have one billion “Americans.” His theory is that we won’t be able to compete, or something like that, unless we’re teeming with huddled masses. It’s not MAGA but MACA: Make America China Already!
(Well, that’s one way to end our H-1B visa controversy. Indians will stop coming to the U.S. and taking American jobs once we make America like its next door neighbor.)
For the record, I’m not a misanthrope or antinatalist (such as the man who sued his parents for giving birth to him without his consent.). If you aim to have 11 kids, like a wonderful editor I’m friends with; or eight, like a devout Catholic cop I know and respect, knock yourself out. I’m a man of faith and treasure family and fecundity. But Americans deciding to procreate and increase their family population is one thing. Increasing our national-family population by importing foreigners, however, is another.
As mentioned earlier, too, (im)migration has been the only source of U.S. population growth for decades now — more than half a century, in fact. Our fertility rate hasn’t been at or above replacement level (2.1 children per woman) since 1972 and now stands at 1.787.
“Ah, that proves immigration’s necessity!” some will say. Ex-chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel, who couldn’t flood Europe with “diversity” agents fast enough, warned in 2019 that her nation needed “skilled non-EU workers” (after having just admitted waves of unskilled Third Worlders). But not so fast. In the U.S., artificial intelligence and robotics are already replacing American workers and are poised to eliminate a high percentage of jobs in the near future. (Germany will be no different.) Moreover, the official unemployment rate is basically phony. For instance, back in 2022, when the unemployment figure was supposedly 3.7 percent, the “true rate” was calculated to be 23.6 percent.
In other words, we have plenty of potential workers, more than our developing high-tech world may require. (What is true is that while there are no “jobs Americans won’t do,” there are wages for which Americans won’t work. Ending immigration and thus limiting worker supply would increase those wages.)
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