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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 2613395" data-attributes="member: 2189">Should you shutdown all immigration this would place the current population growth rate to dip under 0.4% annual growth and in a consumer economy this would stagnate growth and thus stagnate the economy itself.   Some even argue that the birth rate trends in American of the root stock population is on the verge of going negative (population decline) <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2013/09/06/news/economy/birth-rate-low/" target="_blank">if not already there</a> which will have the effect of shrinking the economy.  The irony may be that the immigrant may end up being what keeps our economy going in more ways than we want to realize much less admit.</blockquote>