Thank you for your input.

In a short article, I could not report all the data presented in the book.

For example, immigrants rarely rent apartments right the way. For the first few months, they are ready to accept a bed in a shared room before they save a little. Some may stay temporarily with a family. They enter the housing market gradually. Local builders have time to provide more housing, and immigrants often work in construction at affordable rates. As a result, the uptake in rents is usually not meaningful.

Also, I bring 16 million as a rough estimate of immigrants our economy might need to meet presently unsatisfied needs. After that, the number of available jobs will likely diminish.

Schooling of the immigrants’ children is the wisest investment we can make. We will get foreigners speaking our language and knowing our culture. If they return to their countries of origin, they will be ambassadors of our interests. If they settle, we will need fewer immigrants in the future.

Medical care is another issue. It was bad before Obamacare, and — prove me wrong — it is even worse now. Your argument boils down to stating that we screwed up our healthcare policy; ergo, we should do the same with our immigration policy.

Please check my response to Cristóbal de Losada.