Optimize immigration policy as nation changes: Your Say

About one in 11 blacks in the USA is foreign-born, a Pew Research Center study shows. The ratio is expected to rise to one in six by 2060. Letter to the editor:

Here's another article about how immigration is changing one more aspect of American life. At the same time, the piece says these demographic changes show no sign of slowing down ("Immigrants account for 1 in 11 blacks in USA").

This air of inevitability about these huge, unplanned-for changes being brought by our immigration policy is nuts. We should have an immigration timeout, starting now. Let's study what immigration policies are best for America and its citizens, not just what is best for the immigrants.

No country would let itself be changed the way we are without at least a cursory review. Now is the time for us to do it.

Al Trease; Ketchum, Idaho

Comments from Facebook are edited for clarity and grammar:

Black, white or yellow immigrants, I don't care. It's time to reduce our immigration numbers. It is beyond foolish to keep letting more people immigrate here if we cannot support them.

— Tom Roberts Sr.

As population increases, the number of consumers also increases. People will provide goods and services to one another. The population could double, and more jobs would be created. As far as limited resources, that is a regional issue.

— Ken Marshall

Any legal immigrants coming to work, pay taxes and assimilate are no problem. They should use the legal system.

— Tim Brink