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Who exactly is having children like there's no tomorrow? If not for immigration, the US population would be declining already. Educate people (esp women) and suddenly your major western nation can't maintain population replacement levels of births.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/0...

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You know those people still have children regardless of which country they're in, right?

No, actually I didn't.

In my experience, "those people" are indistinguishable from "people who have the same skin colour as me" after a generation or two.

Oh, and here a some studies with, you know, numbers and statistics that bear that out:

Migrant birthrates falling in Germany, study finds -- http://www.thelocal.de/society/20100811-29073.html

"Fertility rates among foreign-born women start to decline relatively soon after they arrive in Canada, and eventually reach those of women who were born in Canada" --http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/031222/dq031222c-en...

Citation needed. Even if true, once they're here, their children are likely to be better educated and have access to birth control.

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