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Mass immigration into the U.S. does not reduce world poverty. The U.S. takes in 1,000,000 legal immigrants every year, while there are 3,000,000,000 people in the world making less than $2 a day. Immigrants are not typically pulled from the poorest populations because they are too poor, sick, and disconnected. Immigrants tend to come from countries with average incomes lower than Mexico, which accounts for 5,600,000,000 people.
Taking in 1,000,000 immigrants does not tackle world poverty and impacts the unemployed, working poor, vulnerable members of society, and natural resources. Even doubling immigration to 2,000,000 a year would not make a noticeable difference. The million immigrants taken are among the most energetic, better educated, and dissatisfied people who could be agents of change in their countries.
Impoverished countries add 80,000,000 more people to their populations each year. Immigration can never be an effective way to deal with the suffering people of the world because they have to be helped where they live.