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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Not wanting illegal immigrants =/= not wanting immigrants.
It's not that difficult. With legal immigration, you can screen for prohibited characteristics like felons, and incentivize economically valuable characteristics. You can control flow to an ideal level.
With illegal immigration, you can't do any of those things.
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I agree, most rightoids don't.
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Europs politicians implemented legal immigration in bad faith. Legal/ illegal is not all there is to it
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Obviously yes this isn't a dichotomous issue, but the general throughline that has existed forever is that rightoids are pro law and order
(as described by historical expectations of law, i.e. don't steal, murder, etc, and specifically not as described by uniquely modern interpretations on law, such as heavy handed regulation and the tip-pooling equivalent of economic regulation)
and illegal immigration was seen as flouting law and order, or weaponizing modern law and order against them
(breaking citizenship laws, escaping criminal punishments from origin countries, or employing illegal immigrants, 'took er jobs').
If a government decides that they're just going to make it legal for everyone to walk in, that mildly alleviates the "they're breaking the border and citizenship laws", but it does nothing to alleviate the other concerns, and it adds a concern that the government is now attacking law and order, etc.
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