In 1969, fifty years ago, after a forty year moratorium on immigration, the United States sent men to land on the moon. The nation had 100 million fewer people, and still had the human capital to achieve what has not been accomplished since. We don’t need to import more people. We have all the smart people we need, and all the poor people we can handle.
America was a wonderful country to live in back then. Fifty years of mass immigration have made it more congested, more rancorous, and incapable of even modest human achievement. Perhaps, it is time to acknowledge that continued immigration will only make our problems of environmental degradation, social conflict, shabby and strained infrastructure, and massive public debt even worse.
(China has landed a probe on the far-side of the moon and built stunning high-speed rails across their vast nation. What are their immigration policies?)