Our domestic population is shrinking due to lower birth rates. Economists tell us this will lead to an aging population without enough workers to grow our economy and sustain Social Security benefits, as experienced by Japan for many years. The only way out of this problem is via immigration. The problem with immigration is not that millions of rapists and murderers and really bad people are coming across the southern border, it is that current policy doesn't allow enough immigrants to come in legally and pay taxes. That policy is what needs to be changed.
I suspect that immigrants are more lawful and work harder than the citizen population. They come here for the same reasons we all did — a better and safer life — not to commit crimes and risk deportation.
Immigrants here illegally helped rebuild New Orleans much faster than would have happened without them, and many do the jobs that American workers won't do. Demonizing mostly non-White immigrants as subhuman and not worthy of being in our country is exactly the playbook Adolf Hitler used to prepare his citizens to support or ignore the murder of millions of people he didn't want in Germany and other countries he invaded during World War II.
LOUIS SHEPARD
New Orleans
