I’ve always thought this kinda thinking is uber-weaksauce, even coming from you. Yes, my white ancestors WERE immigrants. What harm did they do? You know, beside all the genocide, sexual violence, breaking up indigenous communities, forced death marches, and forced conversions?
Yes, because immigrants are basically just neo-colonialists.
We’ve had much higher rates of immigration, especially from Germany and Ireland, in the late 1800s. Nothing bad happened then. Furthermore, without immigration, we will go into a population decline like China’s on track to - and that would be HORRIBLE for our economy.