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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is so sick- why do you conflate illegal and legal immigration.   Please just stop.[/quote]

Let me break it down for you, since you're cognitively impaired.

Just like Japan, the US native-born population is aging, and birth rates are slowing.  Just like Japan, to support the economy, that means we need a certain rate of low-skilled immigration.  Currently,d due to our lack of a rational immigration policy, those low-skilled workers are being supplied through illegal immigration.  Therefore, to keep our economy growing, we need to create a route to more LEGAL immigration. But the illegal immigrants (and their US-born children) are what's keeping us from a Japan-style demographic collapse.  So the conflation is that we need to transform illegal --> legal.  What ideas do you have to do that?

Given that our economy needs and benefits from these low-skilled workers, but our legal system does not currently provide a route for them to work legally, it's really the legal system that should be blamed as "sick."[/quote]

NP - well, aren’t you smug as can be, with all the answers.

If we are to be a country of laws and, more importantly, respect for those laws, we should not turn a blind eye to illegal immigration.  And, yes, this may involve reforms to those laws, but there are many Democrats who essentially support open borders and providing people living in the country illegally with all of, if not more, the benefits than are extended to citizens.

We are nowhere near the demographics of Japan, by the way.[/quote]

Again with the disdain for research and policy based "answers"!  You guys are just too much.

As for the assertions that immigrants are impacting home values in MoCo, I don't see proof for that. Prices have been on the upswing for the past decade. Prices are up, but volume is down, which means that demand is high.  A downturn in sales volume was also attributed to the Amazon HQ2 decision.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/real-estate-2/report-shows-mixed-results-for-home-sales-in-montgomery-county/
https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/real-estate-2/report-shows-mixed-results-for-home-sales-in-montgomery-county/

But when you look at the most heavily Hispanic areas in MD (e.g. Riverdale Park) you STILL find housing values appreciating nicely (up 30% over last year!)

https://www.redfin.com/city/17065/MD/Riverdale-Park/housing-market

In MoCo, Gaithersburg has seen a big growth in Lationos, but also an upward trend in house prices in the past decade:  https://www.zillow.com/gaithersburg-md/home-values/

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This means nothing to me.  Other than MoCo is experiencing an influx of people, and that we have more people coming here than the County can actually support with housing and other infrastructure, like schools, roads, parks.

Also, maybe housing prices would have had even more of an upward trend in MoCo if it weren't for the influx of illegal immigrants.

And, really, I don't trust Zillow's estimations for anything.  Ask any realtor and they'll tell you that Zillow is not accurate.  [/quote]

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