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.
"Then stop waging economic warfare against the middle and lower classes."
Mass immigration to suppress wages is one of the weapons used to destroy the stability people need to raise children. A child is a twenty year project, and undermining the working class's financial stability with lower wages and lower job security makes it harder for a rational family to think it's safe to take the plunge.