Immigration is good and good for you

The right-wing extremists and the GOP (but I repeat myself) has taken to vilifying immigration and immigrants. Look, we're a nation of immigrants and diversity is the secret of American competitiveness. We should be welcoming immigrants, not scaring them off.

Here's an article from 2006 that makes this point far better than I could. Some things are a little out of date, but the core points are timeless. If you're retired or plan to be, you have a personal need for immigration:

"One fortuitous result of the enormous wave of immigrants coming to the United States is that the median age here is only a little over 35, one of the lowest among the world's more developed countries. This country also has the most productive population per person of any country on the planet—no matter how you measure it, and especially compared with Japan and the members of the European Union.

This is crucial to everyone who plans to retire, because once you do, you'll want a bunch of young, hardworking, tax-paying people supporting you, whether directly, through family contributions, or indirectly, through Social Security or pension programs. Unless you're rich enough to live off your investments, there is no alternative. As it happens, retirement is on the minds of many, and not just in the United States."

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/300-million-and-counting-133184973/