[majewsky]

> Lots of the illegals cannot even read and write.

Except they can. Many Syrian refugees are proficient in English, and many even speak German. There was strong collaboration between German and Syrian universities historically.

(I'm not saying that everyone can read and write, but then again, Western societies have a surprising number of total and functional analphabets.)

And re the automation argument: Automation only takes away medium-skilled jobs. Jobs are for unskilled people because they don't require training, and that's also why they are a poor fit for robots. (Robots don't like irregular situations and need programming for new tasks, whereas you can easily explain a new task to a human worker in a few sentences.)

I always laugh at how people equate more people in a country with growing unemployment rates. If this really worried you, you would move to outlaw procreation, since procreation produces new workers to compete with you about 18 years from now.

[aianus]

> If this really worried you, you would move to outlaw procreation, since procreation produces new workers to compete with you about 18 years from now.

Only if the birth rate is above replacement which it isn't in any developed western country.