> Without immigration, the US would have negative population growth, which is economically probably a disaster.
Nobody knows what the population growth rate would be without immigration. The two are interlinked; ceteris is not paribus.
> We already have shortages in farming, construction and health care labor, which are often populated by immigrants. So overall, we’d have more unfilled positions, which would result in higher prices, etc.
Letting the price of labor in those industries find natural market equilibrium is fine. For agriculture especially, labor is a pretty small part of a product's final cost, anyway.
> Native born Americans just don’t seem to want those jobs.
The price of labor aside, have you ever worked a job where you're surrounded by an ethnic clique? I don't blame anyone for not wanting that.
Nobody knows what the population growth rate would be without immigration. The two are interlinked; ceteris is not paribus.
> We already have shortages in farming, construction and health care labor, which are often populated by immigrants. So overall, we’d have more unfilled positions, which would result in higher prices, etc.
Letting the price of labor in those industries find natural market equilibrium is fine. For agriculture especially, labor is a pretty small part of a product's final cost, anyway.
> Native born Americans just don’t seem to want those jobs.
The price of labor aside, have you ever worked a job where you're surrounded by an ethnic clique? I don't blame anyone for not wanting that.