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.
I'm referring to actual immigrants who are doctors, business professionals, etc., who go through the legal process.
Obviously the hoards of people who show up at the border claiming to be asylum seekers are not part of the brain drain side of things.
Then they need to be more specific when they say "high levels of immigration."
It's sort of like when sluts whine about abortion using the "what about rape or incest?!" as a gotcha. There's nothing stopping anyone from making it law that rape and incest are exceptions, but they dishonestly use the 2% of all abortions to justify the other vast vast majority of elective personal convenience abortions.
By the way, we do [the US does] have visa programs for skilled people. Those quotas are generally quite small. And, even then, why would a doctor or lawyer move here when the tax man is going to make him work for four months out of the year for free so that money can be handed over to the hoard of illegal immigrants who are barely literate in their native language?
They want to come because the average US physician makes more money than any other country, and the taxes are still lower than most countries where they'd consider living. The US is going to shit, but for now it's still extremely desirable compared to alternatives.
But I suppose with the way medical schools are heading here in the US (all the DIE/equity bullshit), I should probably be happy that doctors are moving here from other countries.
To be fair, the smart ones leave as soon as possible.
A case I'm very familar with is the Gulf War of 1991. Many highly educated investors, engineers and doctors fled or left Iraq before the war started since they sensed the end of Iraq as a strong state. Some choose to ride it out, but noticed a sharp decline in everything requiring actual specialist or capital.
They are still subpar and cause more harm. Look at who is making the medical mistakes. Spoiler, it's foreigners.