re: #113 HappyWarrior

We’re almost positive that my maternal grandfather’s mother was pregnant with my grandfather’s oldest brother when they came here from Slovenia in 1910. He’s someone that the GOP would call an anchor baby. He later served in WWII as did two of his other brothers and his youngest brother, my grandfather was in Korea. I defend today’s immigrants because I know even though it wasn’t always easy for my ancestors that emigrated that I want today’s immigrants to get the same respect mine got or if they didn’t get respect to get some much needed.

The reality is that for healthy economic growth we need immigrant labor because the American birth rate has dropped below the replacement level. Otherwise, we eventually become Japan, where the economy is shrinking because the number of adults in their prime is dropping while the elderly are an increasingly large percentage of the total population.