I don't think there's enough food, land or water available for that many right now. There definitely could be , if we started growing crops in our yards instead of grass, and adopted a higher population density though.

Importing food is easy enough, if America really could not grow more. Taiwan gets by with 704 folk for every km^2 of farmland, America has 32 folk for every km^2 of farmland.

"Just take in all 800 million"

Are you freaking serious? That's double the current population. Growth like that in such a short amount of time is not sustainable in the slightest.

Not to mention with the current attitudes towards immigration you're just asking for civil rebelliousness to go haywire.

Are you freaking serious? That's double the current population. Growth like that in such a short amount of time is not sustainable in the slightest.

Not to mention with the current attitudes towards immigration you're just asking for civil rebelliousness to go haywire.

Why do you think so, when all what it seems is not. America, assuming it takes in 800 million immigrants that leech off 649$ each year (though usually the opposite happens), the average native income would lower from 54,370 $ to 52,760 $. That's naught. The population density for each farmland would grow from 179 to 623, about as much as Austria (598) or Portugal (665), far less than some countries like Japan and Hanguk.

I'd love it if somebody came up with a plan to take in 800 million Immigrants.


You wouldn't see another Democratic President in three decades, at least. And Donald Trump would become a serious candidate when Fascism suddenly becomes mainstream again.

Fascism is present in some countries. There's a fascist party in Slovakia, for instance.

Also, what I do is irrelevant to the argument, but

No, it is very relevant, and this is what I mean by the moral high ground. You are unwilling/ unable to devote your own resources to housing these refugees and yet you demand other countries and other people open up their borders, put their national security to risk and spend their limited resources, limited tax revenue on providing for millions and thousands of people. You sit on your moral high ground yelling at others to take action, and yet you are unwilling to contribute to the effort yourself! You philosophically declare that 'it' s only humanitarian to help another human when he has fell down', and yet how humanitarian have you actually been?

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800 million would simply be idiocy. Where would the jobs and resources come from? I am no longer willing to argue you on immigration; it is clear you are an idiot.

Well we could Americanize them easily enough, and we could compete with China militarily. And taking away the minimum wage, factories could come over and produce over here now that we have insane amounts of cheap labor.