The only reason immigrants are overwhelming the native population is because the native birthrate is collapsing. And the collapsing birthrate would be a problem even without the immigrants.
Collapsing birthrate is an issue, but immigrants aren't a solution. And in some of the Western countries, the immigration flood is in excess of what's reasonable compared to even historic birthrates. Canada might be the most severe example of this situation - the peak during the Baby Boom was around 412,000. In the past couple decades the peak was 385,000 births a year. Now, compare that to the recent immigration numbers. They've imported 1.3 million immigrants from 2016 to 2021. Even if birthrates weren't down, that would be almost 1 immigrant for every 2 babies born in the baby boom years. For a given year that might make sense if you're desperate for workers as a nation, but sustaining that leads to a third of the population being immigrants in just one generation and a majority of the population being immigrants in two. This is why I propose a cap to keeping total immigration below 1% of the native-born population over the course of a decade. It gives you the flexibility to deal with a sudden surge, but without the possibility of deliberate replacement schemes - and make no mistake, in Canada it's absolutely a deliberate scheme.
The only reason immigrants are overwhelming the native population is because the native birthrate is collapsing. And the collapsing birthrate would be a problem even without the immigrants.
Collapsing birthrate is an issue, but immigrants aren't a solution. And in some of the Western countries, the immigration flood is in excess of what's reasonable compared to even historic birthrates. Canada might be the most severe example of this situation - the peak during the Baby Boom was around 412,000. In the past couple decades the peak was 385,000 births a year. Now, compare that to the recent immigration numbers. They've imported 1.3 million immigrants from 2016 to 2021. Even if birthrates weren't down, that would be almost 1 immigrant for every 2 babies born in the baby boom years. For a given year that might make sense if you're desperate for workers as a nation, but sustaining that leads to a third of the population being immigrants in just one generation and a majority of the population being immigrants in two. This is why I propose a cap to keeping total immigration below 1% of the native-born population over the course of a decade. It gives you the flexibility to deal with a sudden surge, but without the possibility of deliberate replacement schemes - and make no mistake, in Canada it's absolutely a deliberate scheme.
> Collapsing birthrate is an issue, but immigrants aren't a solution.
Correct. The solution is to fix the birthrate.