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.
"And some of them are good people!"
But the topic is about high levels of immigration in general, not just Illegal immigrants. The brain drain is real, or was in the past with the self-selection process of having to be intelligent or industrious enough to legally immigrate, depending on what country you were from and its quotas, though the whole mass immigration and "refugee" paradigm has eliminated that by removing those barriers.