NONSENSE
Growth as in larger population, vs. shrinking as in smaller population.
Surrendering our manufacturing capacity is due to democrat anti-american production pro-foreign production regulations, and socialism. Why pretend to be shocked that making enemies of production and profit moves it elsewhere?
Conditions on immigration have always worked, your accusation that it's been tried before and failed is a bullshit lie.
Yes the welfare state and the mentality that comes with it, is the pretty much the only real problem this country has.
Bringing in immigrants does not give them a portion of the effing pie, it grows the size of the pie. Do you not understand that they produce? Do you not understand that they purchase? The thinking that there is some fixed number of jobs and fixed amount of money is wrong and stupid.
1. Immigration IS
"pro-foreign production". It is foreigners getting control over American production > It's jobs, it's wages, its working conditions, and reducing all of these to bare minimum standards.
2. Bringing in immigrants certainly does give them a portion of the effing pie, precisely
20 million jobs that should in the possession of 20 million UNEMPLOYED AMERICANS.
3. The immigrants don't produce anything more than the UNEMPLOYED AMERICANS whom they replace.
4.
Purchasing is one of the main arguments AGAINST immigration (illegal & legal). Because of the massive level of immigrant remittance-sending, $70 Billion/year in purchases are LOST from the US economy. Instead of US businesses getting these purchases, they go to the home countries of the immigrants, after the money is wired out of the country. They are then re-inserted into the immigrants' home countries by way of purchases made THERE ($25 Billion/year just to Mexico alone)
5. Most of the
"welfare state" problem you mentioned is due to immigrants, as I've shown about 7 times already in this thread. In 2009 (based on data collected in 2010), 57 percent of households headed by an immigrant (legal and illegal) with children (under 18) used at least one welfare program, compared to 39 percent for native households with children.
Welfare Use by Immigrant Households with Children | Center for Immigration Studies