Canada. Australia. and elsewhere. this policy debate is probably 10 years ahead of us. In most of those countries. they have concluded that immigration policies must be guided by a rational assessment of their national interests. not by emotion. not by nostalgia. In a world that is growing at the rate of nearly a billion people a decade. with the bulk of that growth occurring in underdeveloped and impoverished nations. most other developed nations have concluded that massive migration can no longer be the solution to the worlds problems. They have come to the sobering recognition that largescale immigration holds the potential to destroy the hopes and aspirations of their own citizens without really improving the prospects for most of the world. Let us look at what todays immigration levels will mean to the lives of our children and our grandchildren. A Census Bureau report issued last December indicated that at our current immigration pace. the population of the United States will increase to 383 million people by the year 2050. That constitutes a 50percent population increase in less than 60 years. and the majority of that growth will be directly attributable to immigration that takes place after 1990. It is as though we will absorb the entire population of Japan within the lifetimes of todays children and young adults. Compare it. for example. to Japan. I am not defending their immigration policy. I do not like it. They do not have any immigration basically. And you wonder why their economy is more stable than ours. The most important question we need to ask is whether our children and grandchildren will be better off as a result of this staggering increase in population.
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