Prove that bringing in more middle-class people, increases COL, decreases wages, and which then causes more stress, more resentment and eventually more violence?
52% of legal immigrant households use welfare. So, we bring them here, destroy our civilization in the process, then our taxes go to pay them to exist while our roads and bridges go unmaintained and elderly people have to choose between electricity and doctor visits on their fixed income.
It's because so many illegal immigrants, who started off on welfare, have been legalized over the past 20 years and are still on welfare.
If there was an actual process that only allowed immigration through a means-tested process, such as college education or other measures, then there wouldn't be so many "legal" immigrants on welfare.
Everyone knows that legal immigration, which America had in the 1900-1930's, did not result in an explosion of welfare. These people paid their taxes and became loyal citizens.
Illegal immigration has completely poisoned the well, and should not distract from the policy of merely trying to reset the immigration system back to what it used to be.
The best solution is the one that will never happen in the current political climate, which is a total shutdown of immigration (except through marriage), so even an attempt to go back to the 1930's style immigration is a major improvement.