Here's a fact that knocks the wind out of your sails: In the last decade, 43% of new small businesses in the U.S. were started by immigrants. That's nearly half. You can't ignore that. So you're against immigration. Let me guess — you're worried about jobs? Wages? That tired old script. Study after study shows immigrants complement native workers, not replace them. They fill gaps, start companies, and boost demand. When they open a bodega or a tech startup, they hire locals. That's not a drain — that's a multiplier. Your argument collapses if you think this is a zero-sum game. It's not. Economies grow when more people participate. If you block immigration, you're strangling innovation and entrepreneurship. You're arguing to keep the pie small. I'm arguing to bake a bigger one.

I grew up in a town where the local hospital shut down because it couldn't keep staff. But here's the thing — the problem wasn't a lack of immigrants. It was a lack of investment in training locals. You're holding up that "immigrants fill labor shortages" line like it's a magic wand. It's not. Let me hit you with something real. When you flood low-skill labor markets, wages for the working class stagnate. That's not theory — that's data from the Harvard economist George Borjas. You can't just cherry-pick the GDP numbers and ignore the distribution question. You say immigrants start businesses. Great. But 43% of new businesses from 12% of the population? That's a concentration. It doesn't prove everyone wins. It proves some people win while others lose ground. Your "bake a bigger pie" argument is cute. But if I'm only getting crumbs while you're handing out slices to newcomers, don't tell me the pie's bigger. Tell me why my slice keeps shrinking.

You're still dancing around the real issue. Let me make it simple for you. You keep talking about GDP and business startups like those numbers exist in a vacuum. They don't. GDP can grow while wages shrink for the bottom 60% of workers. That's exactly what's happening. Your entrepreneur stat is weak. Sure, 43% of new businesses are from immigrants. But what about the native-born workers who can't compete with an endless supply of low-wage labor? The construction worker in Phoenix who can't find work because labor is cheap. The warehouse worker in Chicago watching wages flatline for a decade. You say manage it better. Faster processing. More infrastructure. That's not a solution — that's a wish list. Every country that tried mass immigration with "smart policy" still ended up with strained services and wage compression. Canada's housing crisis didn't happen by accident. The real question isn't whether immigration helps the economy. It's whether it helps the people already here. And the answer is increasingly no.