Anit-Immigration Post

Recently I was flipping through TV channels.  Anyway, one of the talking heads on MSNBC (I hate that channel) was talking about immigration reform in the US saying that she believed that absolutely everybody who wanted in should be let it.

This is one of the dumbest comments I've ever heard.  The days of the US as a melting pot should be over.  A rapidly expanding economy needs workers, and the melting pot idea may have been useful 100 years ago - but it is much less useful today in a mature (or soon to be declining economy). 

The US is the third most populous country in the world.  In my view that really is not a good thing.  In other words I see immigration not as a cure for anything but as a sign of a dismal third world future. 

A high population and high minimum wage are not complementary things.  Realistically, the US is on a path into converting much of the population into third world status (or second world at best). 
For the citizens: higher population, higher crime, downward pressure on wages/benefits (zero growth at best), etc.  This is magnified more when the majority of these people seem to be low/no skilled workers (kind of the dregs of their society).   

An immigration view more similar to Canada would serve the US well (much more limited).  Let some of the highly skilled people in (that have skills not abundant in the US), not the no skill worker drones.  The fact that there is a lack of high skilled workers in certain industries/fields is another indictment against the US educational system as a whole.

My take on population is a net negative.  It is usually an improvement for the immigrant, but for society as a whole, not so much.  Additional people, additional problems (whether it be crime, education, government spending, quality of life, diminishing opportunity, cost of living, etc). 

I grew up around a town that was basically destroyed (livability, traffic, strain on government dollars, etc) by an in country migration (stupid calivermin).  The invaders may not see it as destroyed, but the people who already lived there should see some of the problems this influx of people created.