Immigration

In the Daily Beast, David Frum clearly states the obvious problem with the proposed immigration reform. Industries of the future are likely to need less labor. Whether or not we have androids doing most work in a few decades, it is clear that the economy won't need as many workers as it did in the last century. New factories don't need the same number of workers as older ones. We are not going to have the massive assembly lines that we did during Detroit's heyday.  So why are we increasing the number of people we are bringing into our country? According to Frum, the proposed law would triple the number of legal immigrants expected under current law. I haven't heard any compelling answer to this. It seems most likely that this will add to the stagnation of wages that American workers have experienced since the 1970s. In fact, many commentators have pointed out that this stagnation really started within a decade after the passage of the 1965 Immigration which opened the floodgates to new immigrants. Considering the sluggish job growth we are presently experiencing and the impact of technology, it's insane to do anything to increase immigration. Saying we are a nation of immigrants is a ridiculous answer. Just because at previous times in our history, massive immigration may have made sense does not mean it does today.