Is Parenthood a “Job?” by John M. Grondelski

Population figures have lately come to be used in arguments connected with U.S. immigration policy.  Some opponents of that policy accuse the Administration of importing a “replacement population.”  For them, that simply means politicians choosing their voters by bringing in immigrants they later provide with a “clear path to citizenship,” and a Democratic voter registration card.  For others, it means changing the demographic mix of “systematically racist” America by increasing representation from Third World countries.

Proponents of lax immigration policy, however, also employ population numbers.  The American Chamber of Commerce has long pushed looser immigration with the claim that it will “boost economic growth” (and increase profits by paying lower wages), and that immigrants do jobs Americans won’t. …

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