[From “Immigration Economics”]

Germany demonstrates, again, that mass immigration is not, and has never been, actually good for the economy:

Friedrich Merz’s desperate attempt to appear tough on migration took another blow[…]after it was revealed that close to half the taxpayer cash spent on the Bürgergeld (citizens’ allowance) continues to go to individuals without German citizenship[…]

The idea that immigration boosts the economy is trivially true because it is a tautology dependent upon a definition of the economy as something measured by Gross Domestic Product

C + I + G = GDP

So, if you allow 10 immigrants and the government gives them money to spend, both C (consumer spending) and G (government spending) automatically go up. It’s financed by increasing the debt. The economy “grows” and the immigration is “good for the economy”. This is true whether there is one immigrant or one billion; if economists actually believed their own nonsense, then they would advocate for encouraging the entirety of India to immigrate[…]
It’s just possible that Canadian economists are actually that dumb, which would explain a lot about the current state of Canada

The problem is that because immigrants primarily consume and do not produce anything except crime – the service industries in which the employed minority predominantly work is, by definition, not productive – they observably, inevitably, and structurally weaken the economy. As the sclerotic economies of all the countries that immigration has theoretically enhanced are now beginning to show

All that mass immigration has really accomplished in economic terms is provide new debtors, thereby allowing the banks to remain pseudo-solvent for an additional decade or two. But not only has it not solved any problems, it has significantly exacerbated the existing ones