They want to ban all immigration but there aren't enough people being born in their nation states to sustain continuous growth. Meanwhile these same people also want their quality of life to constantly improve but that's only possible as long as the total population increases which helps to increase total production and consumption and grow the market and labor pool.
The western economic model, to succeed, requires either, a naturally growing population ( which it does not have ), or a continuous immigrant inflow higher than the total natural population loss rate.
How have the rightoids not learned from the time when they banned the immigrants and suddenly there was nobody around to do the cheap work on the farms.
They aren't just stealing your jobs, they are doing the jobs you wouldn't have willingly done anyways at the prices those jobs pay, because those jobs only exist at those low prices.
The US is going to keep bringing in more and more immigrants over time, So is Europe. This is because the only alternate option is to slowly fall into continual decline like Japan.
Most of the anti immigrant crowd doesn't understand the privileges they get only because they are currently number one in the rankings for largest economy. The moment they fall they begin to lose those privileges.
Already, more than 1% of Germany's population worth of immigrants move there every year, and their population growth is still stagnant.
The US similarly needs more than 1.5 million people moving in every year to sustain itself.
Conclusion:
The west needs millions of immigrants every year.
One day the west will become the highest population region of the world.
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Using immigrants to fix your country's demographics is like cutting off your peepee to cure the herpes. Yeah, it will technically work, but the cure is by all metrics worse than the disease. I personally don't appreciate if the people who are fixing my demographics are also robbing, murdering, raping, and terrorizing those same demographics.
The reason those jobs exist at low prices is because there are people willing to do them at low prices. Do you think employers offer the best possible salary they can afford to their employees? Of course not, they will try to offer you as little money as they can. If there were no people willing to accept those salaries, they would have to raise them.
Why would people who employ illegal immigrants to pick oranges ever hire native workers whom they need to give minimum wage and whose worker's rights they have to respect when they could just hire people who have no rights in the country?
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Fake news.
They raised the minimum wage in the US, those jobs got replaced by robots.
The every job pays high experiment has already been tested in France and Europe. The US model clearly works better.
When trump did the remove illegals thing the farmers tried hiring home grown Amerilads to do the cotton picking, turns out fats cannot do jobs that require being out in the sun irrespective of wages.
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REAL news
If it was that easy, everybody would have been replaced by robots by now. The cost of running thousands of Robots can often far exceed the cost of simply hiring the workers. Not to mention how unreliable machines can be, so you would also need to hire people to maintain thousands of machines, as well as control their work. Only the most basic menial jobs can be replaced by robots. We will always need sexy indian dudes for tech support as well as thousands of other jobs that require a person to comprehend human interactions.
It doesn't need to pay high. It only needs to pay a bit higher than it would have if there were no people willing to work for less.
Turns out that it's really hard to maintain the pace of the production when you need to respect your worker's rights.
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okay you win
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