This country was built by immigrants, that is a fact, and immigration is essential to our future success, as we grow. ALL of our economical growth must be managed by immigrants ... our current employment base can only sustain current economy and in fact is struggling to keep up with the rapid loss of labor to retirement (of baby boomers) ... so immigration in my mind, is a must.
HOWEVER ... there's a right way to do it, and a wrong way ... hand outs seems to be the wrong way ... it's not how it was done when our fore-fathers came here ... they got their ticket to the country, but then had to WORK to put food on the table ... no hand outs.
See this article, which discusses the success of privately sponsored immigrants vs. government sponsored (who get hand outs):
"Over half of adult PSRs (52.8 percent) reported that they were currently employed in Canada, compared with just 9.7 percent of Syrian GARs."
https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magaz...efugee-system/