Judging from the questions asked by White House reporters during President Biden’s first press conference on March 25, much of the Washington press has bought into the right-wing media’s false narrative that there is an “immigration crisis” in America.
In fact, it’s the opposite: United States desperately needs more — not fewer — immigrants.
Ask most demographers, or most economists, and they will tell you that the United States has an increasingly aging population and a shrinking work force. And the relative decline of both unauthorized and legal migration, especially during former President Trump’s term, has aggravated the problem.
“The crisis we have is one of too few immigrants, not of too many,” says Charles Kenny, a senior fellow at the Center of Global Development, and Washington D.C., think tank. “If you look at U.N. projections, they suggest that, by 2050, the United States will need 50 million more workers to keep the current proportion of workers to the population overall.”
America’s fertility rates have dropped from 3.65 children per woman in 1960 to 1.73 children per woman in 2021, according to the World Bank. That’s way below the rate of 2.1 children per woman needed to replace annual deaths in the United States
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They do not like Fox news
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This will not cover illegal immigration
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His first press conference was late
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Claims that Washington press is being convinced of the right-wings narrative on immigration crisis
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They say the U.S. desperately needs more immigrants when that is an opinionated statement since its an arguable topic.
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speaks for all of the U.S. by using the words “desperately needs”
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makes false claim by saying “they will tell you” instead of just informing them to ask.
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They talk about Former president Donald Trump and how he as aggravated the problem when they don´t show any evidence to how it is specifically related to him.
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The goal for the united states isn’t to have all women birth two children since people will be coming to the united states and the rate that will be as good as the rate in which we could produce offspring. the point is that people will come to the united states at a rate that would equalize since the law of supply and demand would suggest that people will come to the united states if work there is missing. not sure if that made sense but i hope it did.
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