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Just don't give them benefits and let them work?

Unironically this. There's no need to give them full free healthcare or access to social benefits before they become naturalized citizens. That way you can have immigrants who come to work and get their citizenship after proving themselves.

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>you would be richer if you let foreigners suppress the market wage rate

Yeah, or we could just not import them, like we were doing until about 15 years ago?

Qataris, who stuff their migrants into barracks and force them to work with no rights, no benefits, no vote and a low wage (as you seemingly want us to do) STILL end up poorer:

Just admit that your beloved thirdies are useless eaters who frick up every country they touch, why do you think India, Africa and the Middle East are like that?

This assumes unskilled labor demand is limitless and provides a net benefit to the economy along with offsetting the costs of language and cultural barriers.

You couldn't cobble together a coherent political thought if your life depended on it

Just deport the violent parasites

it's the only useful indicator of the relative wealth of a person in an economy, which relates to the original commenter's claims. I didn't even reference GDP growth rates. You should probably read before replying to avoid coming across like an r-slured seether

Obviously GDP is correlated with prosperity. You missed the point.

E.g. if (thanks to innovation or better regulations) building houses becomes 5% cheaper, the "GDP per constructed house" drops by 5%, equivalently the prosperity of new house builders, measured in how nice houses they can afford to build, increases by 5%). But demand for houses responds to price -- if (assuming everything else stays the same) building houses becomes 5% cheaper, then 8% more houses will be built. The GDP from all house construction increases by approximately 3% (=0.95 * 1.08 - 1). That's typical: improvements that increase prosperity are usually reflected in a rising GDP.

But there are lots ways to destroy prosperity without having that destruction (fully) reflected in GDP. Bullshit jobs are one.

Welfare migration is another, aka adding to a country of 100 million another 1 million men who don't have any special skills, don't speak the language, have incompatible worldviews, half of them work hard at the bottom rungs of society, the other half perpetually lives off welfare and commit crimes.

The low paid work that half of them do increases the prosperity of the natives, some services and goods become cheaper. But they also depress wages, so the for the bottom 30% of natives the net effect even of the working migrants is still negative. The welfare/criminal half is a net negative for everyone, large part of it unreflected in GDP -- public safety, later on quality of education.

They strongly increase the demand for housing, cars, furniture, language courses, prison cells, r*pe counselors, r-slur schools, etc... That shows up as increased GDP -- housing prices rise, new jobs for r*pe counselors are created -- but that's not prosperity for the large majority of natives, it's just a harder life.