Can the US afford to take in every immigrant in the world , just to give them a better life?

coragryph

Well, let's do the math. Right now, there are roughly 300 million people in the US, out of roughly 7 billion worldwide. That means we're currently under 5% of the total population. Even taking another 5% of the world population would double our population.

Now, we currently are capable of producing much more food than we use ourselves. So, if we use that capacity for in-country use rather than selling it overseas, we could handle up to that many. And huge stretches of the US are largely empty, so space is not really a problem (though, that would impact the environment significantly).

So, can we handle doubling our population? Barely. Should we? Why bother -- it's far easier to provide the technology and help other countries to develop the resources locally, rather than moving the people and providing them here.

Steve E

sway_26

No, we cant.

â–ªÏŽhiteÄÄ±rlâ–ªÂ®

No.

alberto g

No way that 's not our duty, our duty is with American citizens, Let their own country take care of their own. See what is going on in Latin America and the President of the USA in his visit, this countries and people don't want us. They hate us but they want to send their poor to the USA and we the Americans take care of them. But in their countries they don't want nothing to do with Americans.

booboo

If you talk to all the people who want to come here they see absolutely nothing wrong with it, like we're some sort of bottomless pit of resources and money and space and benefits, but all they'll end up doing is turning the US into exactly what they left, meaning, an overcrowded, wasteland that is incapable of helping itself, except by providing cheap labor or whatever and giving no thought or effort whatsoever to the destruction that that
brings, to the environment and peoples health and anything else

Siervocal

Nah some natural disaster will wipe out the nation before that occurs. It is some sort of natural system that controls overpopulation. Look at the Tsunami of 2004 or the Earthquakes in the Middle East. Don't forget about Katrina either.

Of course we can't. We already have unfair competition and have lost quality of life of our poorest citizens that we used to be able to brag about. Now our poor are not rich by comparison. They live like people in 3rd world countries. And this will only continue to move up the economic ladder. We can't solve the world's problems. We need to take care of our own.
Great question.

hera

No. There is not any way to do this. Big businesses are killing the US and the middle class is being pushed to the way side.

canman

america is fast becoming a nation without identity! soo, the caucausians will be the minority, and the mexicansand asians will be running the show! WHO KNOWS? MAYBE IN 2012, WE WILL SEE A MUSLIM BECOME PRESIDENT! this country is in trouble, and the people who elected the current government is to blame! stupid people in america!

sassyk

Thanks to the illegal ones, no. They have cleaned up on our resources.

When you compare our wealth to those in africa, and many other countries, you'd have to admit we could spare a bit. Not to say I want everyone over here, but share it, so they have a reason to stay home.
Try to dig online for some of the stats about what the top 1%, 5%, 10% wealthiest possess vs. the bottom blocks. Pretty scary. They say the top handful of billionaires have more money than so many of the poorest countries combined. This is like, under 200 individuals!!

How_Would_I_Know

It will be FAR more than 400 million.

whiz

I suggest we secure the borders, deny housing, jobs, and any other benefits to illegal aliens that is allowed to legal residents of the U.S., deport the illegal aliens that still remain, and then see where we stand.
I agree that we can't take in "every immigrant" in the world, but as things are now, we "take in" more illegal aliens than we do immigrants!!!!
Remember, immigrants are here legally, illegal aliens are not!!!!!

is not like immigrant come to chill they come to work and many of their money pays things, some people are bad but there is good people too that follows most of the rules

slew

I am worried about immigrants in total. We don't have enough resource to sustain ourselves. Maintaining our lifestyle and adding more is environmentally disasterous. I'm worried when CHina and India pollutes as much as Americans per capita. We have more than enough food though. Land wise we could stack them on Large apartment complexes. Hospitals, not a problem if they pay their share of the medical bills. Schools, they have to learn English and if they can't keep up, we shouldn't punish those who want to excel. We are strained already in water and energy. There is no easily solution. We could try going for creating a better world,but that means to decrease the life style of most American.

latina666

Immigrants help this economy out. People are being ignorant and not seeing the positive, sure, there are negative things, but honestly, what would you do without them? Are YOU going to work in the field for less than minimum wage? I dont think so. So please, dont think about yourself, think about everybody. One last thing before I go, who do you think is building all these roads, schools, and hospitals? Not you. So stop complaining.

American Beauty

..besides that a lot of Mexicans are bringing Mexico here, God forbid.

Departed

theyre gonna make us turn to communism just so we can feed everyone

illegals_r_whiners

You're right!!
They call the U.S. the "melting pot" of the world, because of all the foreigners we let come into this country. Well, OUR "melting pot" is about to BOIL OVER already!!!

It is WAY past time to STOP it!!
We can NOT take in everybody in the world that wants to come here!!! ESPECIALLY those who are UNSKILLED and UNEDUCATED, and actually take MORE from society, than anything they will EVER contribute!!!

yellowbadmunster

We have to let them in. I'm a businessman and I need cheap labor. Once more, a few illegals in my workforce scare all the other workers into taking less pay and benefits. They know that if they don't I will fire them and use illegals in their place. This makes my labor costs much lower and I pocket all that money. I contribute to politicians so they will continue allowing illegals easy access to the workplace. I tell the politicians to speak against illegals but don't pass any laws that might hinder me from hiring them. Yeh, they have lots of babies who are U.S. citizens, but most will be under educated and will make good cheap workers someday. I need more profits and will do whatever it takes to get richer.

vegaswoman

No they can't. We do need to stop illegal immigration but we need to be compassionate with regards to those who have lived here for years and been good citizens. There should be a path to citizenship.

Middleclassandnotquiet

Absolutely, we need to solve our problems with immigration. There are always problems when you have large amounts at once. But, I know that being overzealous creates a different problem that can be just as big. The minutemen, who I believe are mostly honorable, accepted help from white supremacist groups to sign people up! All of our problems in the US do not stem from illegal or legal immigration. It's nice to believe most of our problems will go away if there were no immigrants but that simply isn't true. Fruit growers and farmers are having problems getting their crops picked and fields howed. We're not China, we're not Communist, and your numbers are overblown. We use birth control here. 40 people aren't moving into your 4 bedroom house.

I do like your quote. Seems that would work instead of welfare here.

If you give a man a fish , you've fed him for one meal . But if you teach a man to fish , he can feed himself forever "

dallas

if they are legal immigrants, yes.

Pa0

Wow these answers as well as the question really make me move my head side to side. What are caucasians afraid of? That the won't have enough power? I don't think it matters if they are caucasians, asians, hispanic or whatever, if they have reached their way to presidency, they deserve it. Also, don't you think that there are many people leaving this country too? Some just come to work and go back. The U.S. doesn't take that many immigrants a year and during that time and even if it did, if people see and notice the effect on the U.S., many will go back to their countries or other countries. Nobody would really live in a 4 bedroom home with 39 other people. It would be impossible for the U.S. to take every immigrant in the world, and if it does, by that time, there will be another country that could be named number one. Many people would move to that country too. Not everybody wants to come here, many people are very happy living in their countries, as well as many Americans move out of the U.S. into other countries. Well that's my opinion.

Kate G

First off, many immigrants who come to the US don't even stay here, as it is a complex process to seek asylum here, so many immigrants are just on their way to Canada. Secondly, the Mexicans are the ones working the farm jobs. Lazy Americans complain there are no jobs? There are plenty of jobs, the Mexicans are working some of them because many Americans don't want to clean a bathroom at McDonalds, or clean people's hotel rooms, but many people from other countries are willing to work hard at bad jobs to better their status. It is highly unlikely that we will "be next", as we can also create a quota that prevents immigrants (legal ones at least) from entering the country. So we will be fine.

rukidding

"just to give them a better life?" Why did your people come here? For a worse life?

kapute2

if you shut the entire border down, by 2050 we will have over 400 million people here. it's not as bad as you think. I like having cheap produce

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