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>>tysone+(OP)
Wage growth would help, but for some reason, these articles never even mention immigration. The scale of immigration both legal and illegal I believe has the greatest impact on the lowest sectors of society. The lack of discussion on the impact so many potential new workers is having on wage growth leads one to think they believe labor cost is the one thing immune to the law of supply and demand.

>>tosser+aH
You're ignoring the demand side. Immigrants also increase demand. For everything.

>>acchow+KO
Do they? By how much? Immigrants have usually low wages. Anyways, in Western Europe, the increased demand (which is probably smaller than in the US), those things are easily canceled by the added costs to public healthcare + social benefits.

>>dgut+UP
If immigrants are young working adults, then you are, in fact, getting an educated (At least high school, often post-secondary) adults, for whose education, food, shelter, and childcare you didn't have to pay a penny for.

Turning them away is like turning away a gift of hundreds of thousands of dollars.