Immigration

As the rest of the world goes into an economic downturn because of de globalization the US could capitalize on legal immigration. The US could set up a merit based system like Canada and bring in the skilled workers who will be losing their jobs throughout Europe and Asia. The US has been accepting an average of one million legal immigrants per year for many years but that number could easily be 2 or even three million. This would mean curtailing the illegal crossing and replacing these people with legal immigrants. The US will be doubling its industrial base over the next five years and will need many new people to sustain that kind of growth. As the Chinese economy slowly crumbles the US will have to begin to manufacture the many goods that are now imported from China and the need for workers will expand rapidly. The hope is that China's decline will be slow enough to allow the US to ramp up in time.