Yes! America Needs Legal Immigrants Because We Don't Have Babies Anymore

Not too long ago in this country a husband and wife could be expected to have 4-12 kids.  Birth control wasn't readily available, most Americans lived on farms and needed the farm labor provided by kids, the social security of parents was provided by their children and lots of Bible readers took the passage to heart, "Be fruitful and multiply!"

But not so much today.  Kids are expensive, hard to raise, we don't need them on farms anymore and 12 car seats simply don't fit in minivans....so now we are having less than 2 kids per couple.  That means we aren't even having enough kids to replace ourselves!

Check out Japan and the death spiral they have put themselves in because they don't want to have kids anymore.

They will need to have "other people's babies" if they have any hope of their nation surviving.

Japan is an excellent place to test the proposition that countries do better with low levels of immigration. In a land of 127 million people, there are just over two million foreign residents, and only a third of them are here for the long term. The number of illegal immigrants, which peaked at a modest 300,000 in the early 1990s, is down by 80%.

As for refugees, in 2016, Tokyo entertained 10,000 requests for asylum. It accepted a grand total of 28. Steve Bannon would smile.

The result, say immigration restrictionists, is plain to see. Japan’s crime and drug-use rates are famously low. Life expectancy is famously high. Japanese students put their American peers to shame on international tests. The unemployment rate clocks in at 3.1%. All this is supposed to be a function of a homogenous society with a high degree of cultural cohesion—the antithesis of cacophonous, multiethnic America.

Just one problem: The Japanese have lost their appetite for reproduction. To steal a line from Steve King, the GOP congressman from Iowa, the only way they can save their civilization is with “somebody else’s babies.”

Japan’s population shrank by nearly a million between 2010 and 2015, the first absolute decline since census-taking began in the 1920s. On current trend the population will fall to 97 million by the middle of the century. Barely 10% of Japanese will be children. The rest of the population will divide almost evenly between working-age adults and the elderly.

Imagine yourself as a 35-year-old Japanese salary man. You can expect that an ever-larger share of your paycheck will go to the government to fund the pensions and health care of your parents—who, at 70, can reasonably expect to live another 10 or 15 years, and who aren’t likely to vote for politicians promising to strip their entitlements.

Being Japanese, you were raised to make financial sacrifices for your elders, even if it means not having children of your own. Besides, it’s hard to want children with the economy in such bad shape. As Morgan Stanley’s Ruchir Sharma has noted, lousy demographics mean a lousy economy: The average rate of GDP growth in countries with shrinking working-age populations is only 1.5%. In 2016, Japan’s growth rate was 1%—and that was a relatively good year by recent standards.

What if the government paid you to have babies? Alas, along with millions of your countrymen, you suffer from what the Japanese call “celibacy syndrome” and aren’t interested in sex, never mind procreation. You’re also unhappy: In 2016, Japan ranked 53rd on the U.N.’s World Happiness Report, a notch above Kazakhstan but below El Salvador and Uzbekistan.

So Japan is in trouble, and the government knows it. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has tinkered with formulas to bring in lower-skilled temporary workers for housecleaning and farm jobs, and he has promoted various tax breaks and subsidies to ease the burden of raising children and caring for aging parents.


But whatever their other benefits, “pro-family” policies won’t reverse the demographic trend. Only large-scale immigration can do that, and the Japanese won’t countenance it. The flip side of cohesion is exclusion. The consequence of exclusion is decline.

Which brings us back to Mr. King and the U.S. immigration debates. A decade ago, America’s fertility rate, at 2.12 children for every woman, was just above the replacement rate. That meant there could be modest population growth without immigration. But the fertility rate has since fallen: It’s now below replacement and at an all-time low.

Without immigration, our demographic destiny would become Japanese. But our culture wouldn’t, leaving us with the worst of both worlds: economic stagnation without social stability. Multiethnic America would tear itself to pieces fighting over redistribution rights to the shrinking national pie.

This doesn’t have to be our fate. Though it may be news to Mr. King, immigrants aren’t a threat to American civilization. They are our civilization—bearers of a forward-looking notion of identity based on what people wish to become, not who they once were. Among those immigrants are 30% of all American Nobel Prize winners and the founders of 90 of our Fortune 500 companies—a figure that more than doubles when you include companies founded by the children of immigrants. If immigration means change, it forces dynamism. America is literally unimaginable without it.

Every virtue has its defect and vice versa. The Japanese are in the process of discovering that the social values that once helped launch their development—loyalty, self-sacrifice, harmony—now inhibit it. Americans may need reminding that the culture of openness about which conservatives so often complain is our abiding strength. Openness to different ideas, foreign goods and new people. And their babies—who, whatever else Mr. King might think, are also made in God’s image.

Here;  https://www.wsj.com/articles/other-peoples-babies-1490050955?mod=e2tw

I agree 100%!  We need the smart people from China, India, Russia, Iran and anywhere else they want to come from!  BUT....we need to make sure that the people coming in truly WANT to be Americans...which means they WANT to be governed by rules of law and they WANT to be governed by our constitution.

As followers of Christ we shouldn't be afraid of different religions coming into America because we KNOW that we have the power living within us to love them and lead them into faith with Christ.

The sad thing to ponder is how few "Christians" there are left in America who actually believe what Jesus said in Matthew 28....that we are to go and make disciples for Christ everywhere that Christ puts us!  Along with that is to ponder how few "Christians" are left in America who actually believe that Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life.  No man comes to the father except through me."

So we end up with a bunch of luke-warm denominations who tell their pew-sitters that "all roads" lead to God....and God can be anything you believe.  He might be called Allah, Buddha, Krishna, or Meyitrea,  So they end up believing that they never have to share their faith....because they are all the same and are all equal in value!

So what happens to all the Muslim refugees that many Americans want to bring into out land?  Will they reject their desire for Shariah law?  Or will thousands and thousands start living in cities together and end up making Muslim enclaves in the heart of our major cities....places where Christians are not allowed to go and proselytize?  What happens to the 4 or 5 kids that Muslims have that they raise as Muslims?  Could they end up being a dominate force that sweeps over all the luke-warm Christians who can't defend their faith out of a wet, paper bag?

Just so you know....Islam has a long history of doing just that.

I hope and pray that Jesus returns before we actually have to find out the answer.