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I thought it was self evident how it was better; an inhabitant is a person living in a place. A citizen is a person living in a place, recognized by said place, who lives under a social contract with said place, giving up certain rights in exchange for receiving other rights.

It’s kind of like a restaurant. Is it an advantage to the restaurant that people can enter and sit down with no intention of doing business with the restaurant? Or is it better that those who enter do so with the understanding that they will abide by the restaurants rules, and order food?

that would be arguing that i am speaking as if everybody’s needs have been met NOW

But that’s exactly what a world of abundance means.

Having an over abundance in one part of the world and scarcity in another isn’t a world of abundance.

iterally all studies about this make you wrong

You misunderstand, we live in a world that’s capable of abundance. Go tell people in Nigeria that they have a world of abundance and see how they react; because they do not have an abundance of anything.

So you’re okay with immigration that builds up our society despite it harming the immigrants home country?

I would love reform. Any changes that get smart productive people into the U.S. would only help us.

At the same time dont you feel it harms foreign countries? We’re literally brain draining other countries keeping them in poverty or preventing them from developing.

The initial premis of the argument that I replied to was questioning why people who were born in the U.S. are entitled to something that those who are not born in the U.S. are not.

I’m all for net tax payers entering the U.S. through legal routes. Methods that protect the immigrant from exploitation from employers.

We don’t live in a world of abundance, abundance is a goal of humanity, were not there yet; and we don’t get there by printing money out of thin air and handing it out.

The government has no problem handing out hundreds of billions to ICE and the Pentagon - there absolutely is enough.

Billions of dollars is pennies compares what would be required to put the world on welfare, and those billions remove criminals and those preying on.l the generosity of our country.

There’s absolutely limited resources, specifically concernin what the government has the capability of handing out.

Unfortunately we have to think about “what’s in it for us?” If the answer is another mouth to put on welfare and medicaid then… Why?..

The US had open borders for most of its history

Just because a social program worked in past doesn’t mean it will work in the future. Hell, just because a social program worked in another country doesn’t mean it will work in this country.

We can’t have people just coming in and immediately qualifying for government assistance. As selfish as it sounds people shouldn’t come into any country with the expectation of economic assistance. The U.S. is not the world’s welfare program; it cannot afford it.

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Because we have limited resources and a country definitionally priorities its citizens over foreigners. If it doesn’t; then you basically no longer have citizens, you just have inhabitants.