# Should the US lower its immigration numbers?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 21, 2011, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-us-lower-its-immigration-numbers/568488 "2011-01-21T20:14:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-us-lower-its-immigration-numbers/568488/116 "2011-02-07T19:41:10Z")

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> [@LonesomePolecat](#):
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> No, it is not inevitable. The problem is mainly uncontrolled immigration caused by insane immigration laws and a severe lack of enforcement of the laws we do have. Stop chain immigration, deny jobs and welfare benefits to illegal aliens, punish employers who knowingly hire illegals, together with a few other measures could easily put a stop to it. And I’ve noticed that “treating people fairly” generally means treating whites unfairly. It also seems to need an awful lot of bureaucracy and lawsuits.

Both blacks and hispanics have more children on average than whites do. Which has nothing at all to do with immigration, so your immigration ideas would do nothing to change that.

By the way, I haven’t really seen anything to show how this is a bad thing anyway. Whites won’t be the majority in the near future. So?

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