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Because the industrialization of America is over, and has been for decades. USA doesn't need low-wage, immigrant workers anymore. The railroads have already been built, the fields have been plowed, and now that's all done by big automated machines. Everything that cheap workers used to do that was valuable is now automated.
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Who does the farming? Who does the cleaning? Who builds the buildings? Who are the line cooks? That should be obvious.

But it should be just as obvious that there are plenty of immigrants who are also necessary because they bring new ideas, their education, their incredible work ethic, to fill in the gaps that the US clearly has.

There is one thing that unites all of us (and I do mean us, as I am one of them). We all dream of a society where our hard work can become prosperity for ourselves and for everyone else, a plot of fertile soil that is worth sowing. We all come here with a dream.

And I personally don't mind so much that I'm uplifting people that don't agree with my existence. I just wish that they could stay out of our way so we could all benefit.

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You don’t even have to think that hard about it.

Without immigration an imminent depopulation crisis is on its way to America.

We are actually blessed to be in demand as an immigration destination as well as a culture and infrastructure uniquely set up for it.

Squandering that advantage to satisfy xenophobic ideology is yet another demonstration of the Republican Party’s lack of fiscal responsibility. See also: completely random war in Iran, ICE budget increases spent on kicking out taxpayers/customers, tax cuts for billionaires, the current record high budget deficit, $1.8 billion fund for Trump brownshirts, etc.

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List of low-wage immigrant workers:

Melania Trump

Boris Epshteyn

Elaine Chao

Elon Musk

Ted Cruz

David Sacks

Sriram Krishnan

Jensen Huang

Satya Nadella

Sundar Pichai

Lisa Su

Sergey Brin

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> Vivek Ramaswamy

> Bobby Jindal

> Nikki Haley

All natural-born American citizens born in the US.

Are you in a froth naming everyone you can think of with Indian surnames because you assume all brown people are immigrants?

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Low quality bait comment, cherry picking a few kids of well educated well-off immigrants who turned out to be rockstars growing up under the exceptional US economic conditions. It's called the exception, not the rule. If those kids were to grow up in some underdeveloped country, none of them would have achieved anything noteworthy which proves the US itself and the conditions it offers is the secret sauce, not immigrants alone by themselves.

Also, some people on your list are absolute red flags I would rather not have in my country, which is proving my point that good border controls and strict visas are essential.

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Elon Musk was from a rich Canadian-South African family that owned mines.
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