An unassailable body of recent economic research proves that we are made richer by allowing people to enter freely. We also know from a body of indubitable historical and sociological research that migrants carry valuable ideas with them, and create new ideas as a result of their having lived in two cultures. New entrants not only take jobs, they make jobs. And the jobs they create with their purchasing power, and with the new businesses which they start up, are at least as numerous as the jobs which immigrants fill. Immigrants do not rip off natives by over-using welfare services.
Immigrants typically arrive when they are young and healthy.
Hence new immigrant families use less welfare services than do average native families because immigrants do not receive expensive Social Security and other aid to the aged. And immigrant families pay more taxes than do native families. Therefore, immigrants contribute more to the public coffers in taxes than they draw out in welfare services. In this way, each immigrant family makes it possible for a native breadwinner to retire two years earlier than otherwise. The proportion of new arrivals with post- graduate education is far higher than the average of the native labor force.