The truly humane thing to do would be to help these people in their own countries through more effective foreign aid, not to bring them here. We cannot be the repository for all of the world's people who want a better life. That would accomplish nothing except to overwhelm us. If immigration will lead us to economic prosperity, we should be the most prosperous country in the world, as we take in more immigrants per capita than virtually any other country as we have been doing for decades. Why then can our kids no longer find an affordable place to live, why do we have crumbling infrastructure, and why is it so difficult to find a family doctor? It used to be much better by all three measures. The argument that more immigration is going to make our lives better is not borne out by the facts.