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by amypetrik8 184 days ago
>which no government around the world has been able to materialise an answer to.

I disagree. The whole hot political topic of "illegal immigration" is as a side effect - seemingly a successful solution to motivate (foreign) people to bump the population. Specifically - "if you have a kid in the US, the kid is automatically a citizen, you don't have to pay taxes, you don't need a green card, you work under the table so make $0 on paper and thus qualify for free food and housing (welfare) and free healthcare (medicaid)".

Honestly if we gave such a deal to young non-foreign american women free and clear, likely we'd be seeing a lot more childbirths.

Despite all the economic burden and political strife this program has caused, it may in fact extend the life of the nation and welfare.