Except that on average immigrants are usually part of the working-age young male demographic

The problem is that people argue about immigrants being unskilled

Depending on a nations immigration policy; immigrants may come in educated skilled labor

But that means some other country is having a brain drain

But the origin country gets the remittances so they're usually happy

That is if said immigrants send money back

Sometimes they may start a new life; become citizens of said country

Well in the context of the US the major immigrant groups that come in do send money back

No nation really wants its people to emigrant out

I think some central asian country got like 40% of its income from remittances

eh, it depends

Tru, immigrants may send money back to their country for their families and such

Because the US has technology that most countries don't so people in the US generally are more productive and make more money

Yes, and there is usually an investment on education of countries like US tend to be higher than some developing countries

Thus productivity is higher with tech and education

Yeah, so it's better if they send money back while living in the US than in their own countries

Since they'll probably make a lot more

Now, does this include illegal immigrants or legal immigrants?

That depends

In some cases illegal immigrants contain a lot of people we don't want and in some cases they contain mostly people that we do want but that can't get through because of quotas

So I'm not just gonna make a blanket statement about all of them

There is problem where there isn't really an option to naturalize immigrants if they enter illegally

And if there is; it may piss off the immigrants that came thru a tedious legal process

*Why would I apply to come to US if I can enter illegally and then become naturalized*

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Well ideally I'd want the system to be reformed so that it's easier for them to get through *if* they're good

So the economy

What is it really

It's the movement of resources and services

According to Adam smith

He said it's something men cannot control

Like a force of nature

Yeah but adam smith also believed in the invisible hand

i really don't understand the aversion to enforcing legal immigration

Adam smith underestimated humans

And overestimated

oh shit that convo outran me <:laugh:583238348077006869>

Adam smith couldn't compete with modern economists in a debate