The Star Tribune Editorial Board claims, in essence, that mass immigration and mass amnesty — i.e. the Obama plan — are necessary for a successful Minnesota and nation (“An ill-timed plan to pitch immigration”).

The editors fail to understand that any economy requiring constant infusions of people is a Ponzi scheme economy and is destined to fail. The larger it becomes, the greater the calamity. The question to answer is when will there be enough people? The editors seem to say never!

What it a resource and environmentally sustainable population level for Minnesota and the United States and what is immigrations role in achieving it?

The editorial board seems to think it’s still 1880, when the land was nearly free and abundant, and when Minneapolis had a population of 47,000 and St. Paul 41,000 and the U.S. 51 million people. Today it’s 335 million in the nation and growing exponentially.

Pew Research states that by 2015, post 1970 immigration had increased the U.S. population by 72 million to an already unsustainable level and will swell this country unsustainably by another 103 million by 2065. That 175 million increase is solely from immigration; the editors want it to increase.

Already overpopulated with looming environmental, economic and social dilemmas now occurring and more on the near horizon, remember back in 1972 the U.S. Population Commission said the U.S. needs to stop population growth. It’s good for us, it concluded.

After such a huge increase, it is very difficult to stop. Becoming a self-fulfilling policy, the resulting changes in congressional representation shift power and government money flows from low to high immigration states.

Finally, the immigration that the newspaper encourages merely subsidizes employers, flooding job markets and almost guaranteeing that uneconomic companies survive.

The best thing the U.S. could do for its economy, environment and workers is to have a 10-year immigration moratorium, followed by immigration of 100,000 all-inclusive per year.

Paul Westrum

Albert Lea