The American population is growing at a rate of 2m people per year without immigration.
we need to have a 10-year moratorium on immigration. Zero it out for 10 years.
Why?
Zero immigration is a terrible idea. One of the good ideas that Trump is pushing is moving our immigration system to one that is more centered on merit than the system we have now.
We need immigration - it is key to taking talent from other nations and getting it here. The problem is that we need to reform our immigration system from one that produces cheap labor for cheap products to one that is centered around making our nation the most innovative out there. You can only do this by drawing that talent from everywhere else.
Personally I think that we should be increasing immigration quite a bit but crack down on who we are letting in.
Why do we need immigration? Please don't say we're a nation of immigrants. That has no bearing on the need for immigration right now.
Our population is growing at a rate of 2m people a year without immigration. Our infrastructure and government services are already stretched to the breaking point. Our bridges are not designed for the massive amount of wear and tear that a geometrically growing population places on it. The same can be said of other aspects of our infrastructure like roads, buildings, schools, and public parks. Our social services are os overrun that it cannot keep up and our social safety net now has holes in it from lack to resources. Resources that are being spent on immigrants. The population explosion to our country is unsustainable at current immigration levels and we need a moratorium of at least ten years to provide even a minor correction to this.
In case you haven't seen this, I'll invite you to look at what a 1m per year immigration policy will do to our population down the road.