Immigrants could help the US labor shortage -- if the government would let them

[Hortensis]

3. True. Remembering, though, that at all times over half the nation

ranges from not real happy about immigrant labor to extremely opposed. And right now we're in the middle of a RW populist revolt, with even civil war not impossible, with anger over immigrants a top, top issue.

Those FOr opening to doors to immigration, of course, is an interesting goulash of

* folk like me who like the nation of immigrants, legal and otherwise, that've we normally had,
* the many in the U.S. who long for family and friends to join them again,
* economists
* business, of course
* the extremist fringe types who call for completely open borders

AND, perhaps even most passionately for "the establishment" revving immigration right now:

* the anti-immigrant tRumpists and RW powers for their populist rage-energized white nationalist
authoritarian takeover followed by
vicious purging the nation of our many millions of immigrants
* LW populists who see RW insurrection as clearing the way for their takeover,
* Anarchists and others hoping for bloody civil war and total collapse period.

Hey, turns out just about everybody's for increasing imigration right now. Maybe a cautious, most needed approach would be best, though.