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The Mailroom: America needs immigrants
September 2025 Letters to the Editor
Virginia Business //September 1, 2025//
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The Mailroom: America needs immigrants
September 2025 Letters to the Editor
Virginia Business //September 1, 2025//
I appreciate your column in the July issue of Virginia Business on the value of immigrants (“Your friends and neighbors”). I’ve been sounding the benefits of immigrants for years since working in the nonprofit sector helping immigrants and refugees in the 1990s.
In addition to the factors and data you cite, I find it also useful to point out that at current birth rates of American-born citizens (1.6 children per couple), we as a nation will shrink without accepting hundreds of thousands of immigrants, with the obvious impact on businesses, the GDP and the economy more generally.
David King
President
David P. King Fundraising Counsel
Richmond
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