We have major issues that can be solved by expanding immigration in the US:

(1) Our country is aging. This is a well known and well documented impending train wreck. The ratio of working age persons to retired persons is on its was from 7:1 to 2:1. As a direct result, social security system is going to go bankrupt. It is as simple as that. Without dramatically increasing the number of TAX PAYING, YOUNGER people in the US, our senior citizen will be forced to increase their retirement age by up to 10 years AND will see dramatically lower benefits. Immigration is the answer.

(2) We need low cost labor to do the menial jobs nobody else wants to do. Who do you know that wants to pick vegetables in the fields in 100 degree heat? Nobody I know does. The truth is, if we didn't have the vast pool of illegal immigrants in this country, many, many jobs would go unfilled. And many of the goods and services we enjoy would be much more expensive.

(3) We have an enormous trade imbalance. The direct result is that our currency has ALREADY devalued significantly vs the other major world currencies. Have you been to Europe lately? For the first time in our generation, traveling the Europe and many other developed nations is almost completely unaffordable for Americans. And it's only going to get worse. And the reason is simple. We no longer manufacture good in the united states. Why? Because the cost of labor is too high. Afraid manufacturing jobs are going to be lost? Too late. It already happened. They are gone. And more are leaving. So we can pretend that this isn't happening and wait for our economy to implode and the cost of imported goods to skyrocket. Or we can make a huge, strategic choice to bring manufacturing jobs back to the US. And the way you do that is bring the low cost labor here. If anyone tells you otherwise, they are just blowing smoke.