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.
Not only living a lower quality of life but sending money back home. They're effectively supporting a bigger family, more cheaply than you can. They can come to the US, birth some children, and retire to the old country when they get old.
There's always a poorer person somewhere in the world. Borders are how you keep being a rich country.