The real question is: why at this juncture in history does ANYONE think the United States needed re-settling?
Go back to 1969 when the entire chattering class and the government was hysterical about Overpopulation, telling Americans to have only “replacement” children and using this excuse for allowing abortion!
Were we really overpopulated? If not, why are the same people who screamed that then now say we need tens of millions of people who had nothing to do with our Revolution, the subsequent settlement of the entire country, all the wars fought to maintain what was won in 1787?
We “needed” 60 million “immigrants” who have no ethnic, genetic or linguistic relation to us? In fact, in the case of Mexico, they actually believe our territory is not ours, and that we have no right to nationhood, and that the wrong side won the War in 1848?
The absurd fallacy of “overpopulation” is gingerly pointed out here:
https://www.retroreport.org/video/the-population-bomb/
Note the idiot Erlich still can’t admit he was wrong.
Americans used to have 4 and 5 kids per family. If the Baby Boomers had done that there would be zero credibility to the claim that “we need immigrants”. The population would what it is now but probably 70% would be descended from the original settlers who came before 1770, which is what it was in the ‘50s.
Does anyone think all those men in all the wars fought so that California could become majority Mexican, up from 4% of the population in 1970?
What has happened in the last 40 years has only one precedent in history: the invasion and fall of the Roman Empire.
Roughly 40 million illegal immigrants to replace the roughly 40 million kids we aborted.
Yes indeed. I remember vividly as a boomer being shut down by several well educated and intelligent young women when I broached the subject of marriage and family. Everyone was ‘busy being free’, to quote a chapter heading in ‘Loose Change’ a book that tells a lot more than the authoress knew when she wrote it. It is still worth reading and it is a damning self portrait of the ‘smartest generation ever’.