Adding a city the size of Philadelphia in just one year hardly means we are on the cusp of a decline in population, as The New York Times article suggests.
The choice is clear: we can either help a tiny share of the world’s refugees who win a 'migration lottery' and are resettled in America or we can devote the limited resources available to assisting potentially millions of people overseas in or near their home countries.
A more moderate level of immigration is both good policy and good politics. Cheap foreign labor is cheap foreign labor, whether it’s legal or illegal, permanent or temporary, blue-collar or white-collar.