This is quite far from a comprehensive list, just the first I thought of - read something like Alien Nation for more:
1) Racial privileges ("Affirmative Action", "DEI") for the vast majority of immigrants at white people's expense. These are everywhere; college admissions are the most famous, but corporate hiring/promotion, scholarships, government contracting, racial advocacy groups, and subsidized loans are all even worse. Obviously, being a 2nd/3rd tier citizen sucks.
2) Welfare/fiscal impacts. The median immigrant is a large fiscal burden on the country, because they use more government programs than natives and make very little money (and therefore pay few taxes - we have a very progressive taxation system). This is masked in some stats because they're usually claimed on behalf of dependent (citizen) children, but it's still an effect of immigration. I resent being forced to pay for these people.
3) Lower national IQ. National IQ is the best predictor of economic growth and development (see Hive Mind). Immigrants, on average, are dumber than natives and therefore predictably make the country poorer in the long run.
4) Politics. The median immigrant dislikes white Americans, wants socialism (welfare + bigger regulatory state), opposes freedom of speech, and so on. This is bad, and will kill American exceptionalism unless demographic trends are turned around fast.
5) Housing prices - should go without saying. Empirically, a 1% increase in immigrant population => 1% increase in housing prices (sciencedirect.com/science/articl…).
6) Lower internal mobility. Can't make it big in the big city if the big city is full of Dominicans on welfare (see: aporiamagazine.com/p/fleeing-oppo…).
7) Cultural conflict - I don't like hearing eg loud noises on public transportations. Puerto Ricans disagree. We can't both get what we want. More diversity means more of this.
8) More seriously, overt ethnic conflict. There are hundreds of organizations explicitly devoted to promoting the zero-sum ethnic interests of various ethnic groups. To the extent they succeed, they make my life (and everyone else's - anti-meritocracy is bad) worse. This can and has (Lebanon) reached the level of civil war.
9) Crime. The median 2nd-gen immigrant is about as criminal as the average American. But that makes them much more criminal than they average white American, US stats being skewed by sky-high black crime. Even if they're making Detroit safer, they're making my part of the country worse. And Europe is much worse - immigrants are responsible for half or more of serious crime in many continental European countries (eg Denmark: inquisitivebird.xyz/p/the-effects-…), and that's not touching things like the "grooming gangs" [read: industrial scale racially motivated gang rape of white girls by Pakistanis] in England.
Empirically, native-born Americans move away from places with lots of immigrants (even though pull-factors, like jobs and cost-of-living, are the same for both groups), suggesting that whatever the benefits of immigration are, they are dwarfed by the costs.
And it's worth pointing out that assimilation is mostly not real, and stops at the 2nd generation (see: The Culture Transplant). None of these problems will ever go away.
1) Racial privileges ("Affirmative Action", "DEI") for the vast majority of immigrants at white people's expense. These are everywhere; college admissions are the most famous, but corporate hiring/promotion, scholarships, government contracting, racial advocacy groups, and subsidized loans are all even worse. Obviously, being a 2nd/3rd tier citizen sucks.
2) Welfare/fiscal impacts. The median immigrant is a large fiscal burden on the country, because they use more government programs than natives and make very little money (and therefore pay few taxes - we have a very progressive taxation system). This is masked in some stats because they're usually claimed on behalf of dependent (citizen) children, but it's still an effect of immigration. I resent being forced to pay for these people.
3) Lower national IQ. National IQ is the best predictor of economic growth and development (see Hive Mind). Immigrants, on average, are dumber than natives and therefore predictably make the country poorer in the long run.
4) Politics. The median immigrant dislikes white Americans, wants socialism (welfare + bigger regulatory state), opposes freedom of speech, and so on. This is bad, and will kill American exceptionalism unless demographic trends are turned around fast.
5) Housing prices - should go without saying. Empirically, a 1% increase in immigrant population => 1% increase in housing prices (sciencedirect.com/science/articl…).
6) Lower internal mobility. Can't make it big in the big city if the big city is full of Dominicans on welfare (see: aporiamagazine.com/p/fleeing-oppo…).
7) Cultural conflict - I don't like hearing eg loud noises on public transportations. Puerto Ricans disagree. We can't both get what we want. More diversity means more of this.
8) More seriously, overt ethnic conflict. There are hundreds of organizations explicitly devoted to promoting the zero-sum ethnic interests of various ethnic groups. To the extent they succeed, they make my life (and everyone else's - anti-meritocracy is bad) worse. This can and has (Lebanon) reached the level of civil war.
9) Crime. The median 2nd-gen immigrant is about as criminal as the average American. But that makes them much more criminal than they average white American, US stats being skewed by sky-high black crime. Even if they're making Detroit safer, they're making my part of the country worse. And Europe is much worse - immigrants are responsible for half or more of serious crime in many continental European countries (eg Denmark: inquisitivebird.xyz/p/the-effects-…), and that's not touching things like the "grooming gangs" [read: industrial scale racially motivated gang rape of white girls by Pakistanis] in England.
Empirically, native-born Americans move away from places with lots of immigrants (even though pull-factors, like jobs and cost-of-living, are the same for both groups), suggesting that whatever the benefits of immigration are, they are dwarfed by the costs.
And it's worth pointing out that assimilation is mostly not real, and stops at the 2nd generation (see: The Culture Transplant). None of these problems will ever go away.
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