How much? I don't have a number but I would say that we should have more legal immigration than was allowed under Obama...certainly not less.No it hasn’t. I am a proponent of legal immigration. The reason I keep asking the question for which no one will answer is to highlight a basic problem. That is regardless of how many we allow there will be 100 times more that want to come here. So what do we do? I am waiting for someone to discuss this rather than overreacting to every sensationalized news report.
https://www.marketplace.org/2018/01/26/world/what-limiting-legal-immigration-would-do-our-economy
http://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.ed...s-of-immigration-on-the-united-states-economy
Here is an economic analysis of the proposed RAISE act that will cut immigration. http://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.ed...-raise-act-effect-on-economic-growth-and-jobs
- The RAISE Act, a bill recently introduced by Senators Tom Cotton and David Perdue and endorsed by President Trump on Aug 2, 2017, would reduce legal immigration while increasing the portion of new legal immigrants that are highly skilled.
- By 2027, our analysis projects that RAISE will reduce GDP by 0.7 percent relative to current law, and reduce jobs by 1.3 million. By 2040, GDP will be about 2 percent lower and jobs will fall by 4.6 million.
- Despite changes to population size, jobs and GDP, there is very little change to per capita GDP, increasing slightly in the short run and then eventually falling.
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The United States, with an aging population, could benefit by substantially increasing the number of immigrants, especially those who are college educated, according to a new online analysis tool by the University of Pennsylvania.
If net legal immigration to the U.S. gradually doubled from the current 800,000 per year to 1.6 million over the next few decades, it would not only increase the size of the population, but also employment and the Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, according to the Penn Wharton Budget Model at budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu.
If net legal immigration to the U.S. gradually doubled from the current 800,000 per year to 1.6 million over the next few decades, it would not only increase the size of the population, but also employment and the Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, according to the Penn Wharton Budget Model at budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu.