Person A: I support high levels of immigration.
Person B: Weren't you complaining about wages being too low? High levels of immigration directly impact wage growth in a negative way.
Person A: Yeah, but we don't have enough people to care for and replace baby boomers, so we need those immigrants.
Besides telling boomers to get rekt, what's your initial response?
Obviously, it's hypocritical to dissuade citizens from having children, and then turning around and saying we don't have enough people so we need more immigrants.
But I feel like I'm missing something here and can't quite put my finger on it.
People that argue for immigration don't tend to understand any of the issues because 90% of the other problems they likely complain about are caused by immigrants. There's only two main non-sinister reasons to support immigrants: 1. You are an owner of capital or directly benefit from owners of capital and understand immigrants would help to improve your quality of life. 2. You believe in total equality among all people and don't care if your quality of life decreases because of immigrants since you believe every person deserves the same amount of resources as you.
The vast majority of people are not either of these but don't understand the issue enough to realize what's going on.