Why Is Trump's Wall A Bad Thing?

[Dill]

(02-01-2019, 04:23 PM)Benton Wrote: https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2018/01/weodata/weorept.aspx?pr.x=72&pr.y=11&sy=1980&ey=2023&scsm=1&ssd=1&sort=country&ds=.&br=1&c=273&s=NGDP,PPPGDP,PPPPC,PCPIPCH,LUR,GGXWDG_NGDP&grp=0&a=

Their GDP grew as did their economy (mostly) through the 80s and 90s. As jobs migrated south, illegal (and legal) immigration has slowed proportionally. The late 90s/early 00s when our manufacturing moved there, look at the GDP. It moves from (in the billions) 816 in 90 to 6,600 in 00 to 13,000 in 2010. It's estimated to be 31,000 in 2023. 

Their economy in the 80s and most of the 90s sucked. They came here. Their economy started getting better int he 2000s, their immigration peaked and then dropped off. As their economy improves (and ours worsens), that number will continue to go down.

OH NO!   You are forcing me to choose between the IMF and Pew Research, on the one hand, and the Center for Immigration Studies on the other.

What's a poor voter to do?  Guess I'll have to compare a bit more closely. Seems the CIS claims respond to the argument that immigration is most directly related to up and downturns in the US economy. (Perhaps they are refering to the common sense notion that Mexicans immigrate because there is work here, and so would not if there weren't?) Whereas the other sources support the claim that the Mexican economy is the most important determinant in the flow of immigration.  When there are jobs in Mexico, they stay. When there aren't, they move.  That would explain why immigration doesn't correlate to the state of the US economy.

This is a lot of work, people. Too much. I recommend everyone just visit sites that give them info they already agree with.