&gt;Newcomers don&#x27;t just take jobs, they create jobs!<p>Probably, in the long run. In the short term they will depress wages, and we don&#x27;t know how long that short term will last--could be decades.<p>If you allow 10 million programmers into the US, it will severely depress wages for programmers already living here. For those people wages will likely not recover in their lifetimes.