This in a nutshell is why many people want the borders left open; without infusions of people (ANY people), we’d have ghost towns all over the landscape here. The people who want open borders aren’t just the elites who need a population to dominate; they are also the people who want to rent housing to them (even if the dwindling number of taxpayers foot the bill), the people who want to accept their welfare payments in their bodegas, etc.
I tell people that without our laughably open borders there would be such a shortage of soldiers and workers (namely of the kinds that aren’t dirt-poor, yellow-dog Democrat voters) in America thanks to abortion and marital destruction that we might see a massive swing back in morals. Not necessarily because of a religious revival...but because people look around and start plain panicking. That stores would begin shutting down and neighborhoods evacuating because there was nobody to provide critical services.
Most people look at me like I’ve lost my mind. But not one of them cares to dispute me on a factual basis. Which I think is because the thought that I even MIGHT be right scares them silly one way or another. From imagining just how empty their city might be to imagining being arrested for walking around unescorted and ‘dressed’ like a prostitute.
I’ve had dreams where I’m walking or driving down a street in my homecity, festooned by signs saying “Illegals OUT” and with signs of some forceful evictions...and no matter how far I go the streets are almost deserted. The people I do go by have this shocked look on their faces, and seem to be trying to constantly count how many others they see around them to reassure themselves that they aren’t alone.