Thread: Before anyone freaks out over the front page headline on historically high immigration in the @nytimes today, let’s remember... nytimes.com/2018/09/13/us/…
3/ Immigrant share of the population is growing because of higher inflows since 1965 but also because of lower fertility in the US among all racial groups prb.org/us-fertility/ 
4/ The US population would actually decrease if we cut immigration, threatening economic growth, solvency of Social Security and Medicare
5/ As #dowellmyers noted several years ago in his book “Immigrants and Boomers,” the huge wave of Baby Boom retirement will mean that we will need MORE immigration to the U.S., not less. Otherwise, get ready for massive cuts in spending or massive tax increases.
6/ Finally, as this CONSENSUS report from the National Academy of Sciences noted, immigrants are largely integrating well into US society, including linguistically and culturally. Immigrants continue to make America strong. nap.edu/catalog/21746/…
7/ An important postscript thanks to Prof @debbiejsr: A record high share of Americans, including a majority of Republicans, see immigration as good for the country (via @Gallup) news.gallup.com/poll/235793/re… [Majorities also favor a path to citizenship and disapprove the #borderwall]
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