And while demographers say that foreign workers will be needed to keep up living standards, there is much opposition to new immigration.
Even those who have been in America for years are being strained by the new immigration.
By 1900, new immigration from Iceland had almost completely ceased.
A wave of new immigration also helped bridge the gulf.
That in turn has become a major factor contributing to rising opposition to new immigration.
Yet she acknowledged that rising anti-Semitism could spur new immigration.
Also contributing was new immigration from Asia beginning in the 1970s.
Indeed the formal reason for today's demonstration was a protest against proposed new immigration laws.
It must also be clear that we have to give the integration of third country nationals living here legally higher priority than new immigration.
At present birthrates, however, without new immigration, her population will crash to 600 million by 2050.