Remember that 9/10 of the poorest states are red states. Every day repubs are asking you if you want the rest of America to be as poor as red America. You should say 'no freaking way' do I want that!
remember that if Rs succeed in choking off immigration the nation will be made poorer, more in the image of deep red Alabama and Mississippi.
We'd have a more stagnant economy without strong immigration. Which means lower tax revenue which means higher deficits, which means lower stock markets, etc.
to be fair, the wealth constructed by immigrants doesn't show up as strongly in per capita wealth and income.
WaPo:
Immigration has propelled the U.S. job market further than just about anyone expected, helping cement the country’s economic rebound from the pandemic as the most robust in the world.
That momentum picked up aggressively over the past year. About 50 percent of the labor market’s extraordinary recent growth came from foreign-born workers between January 2023 and January 2024, according to an Economic Policy Institute analysis of federal data. And even before that, by the middle of 2022, the foreign-born labor force had grown so fast that it closed the labor force gap created by the pandemic, according to research from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisc
