To go with your analogy, I’d add that each bag is a different size. Rhode Island can’t take as many immigrants as California for instance. A tiny border town can’t take as much NYC as another example.

Right now the Texas bag is stuffed and bulging and tearing at the seams

Agreed.

NYC is practically empty comparatively, yet they’re still having problems with a few thousand marbles.

I wouldn’t go that far. While they may technically have more room, the amount of fighting for that room is far higher NYC than anywhere else. And the cost for land/residences in NYC is far higher than anywhere else.

If it cost $40,000 per marble to put then in bag A, and the rest of the bags cost $23,000, it makes far more sense to place them in the rest of the bags.

The median rent in NYC is ~$3,375 vs U.S. median of ~$1,967. And that’s before accounting for the fact that due to size restrictions NYC residences cannot individually house as many people.

And it’s not like it’s the sort of thing where 1000 marbles is fine and 1001 will destroy everything, Everything simply gets worse and worse and it doesn’t end with a bang, just a whimper.

Agreed. But it’s just a metaphor.

Finally, it’s a fire hose of marbles, a ridiculous amount of marbles. From 400,000 marbles in 2020 to over 2 million in 2022. That’s almost an entire percent of the population, in just one year, and it’s not like they leave, they stay forever. Year after year, just compounding the issue and always getting worse.

A fraction of a percent of the population isn’t that much. The explosion of baby boomers had a bigger effect, at 4.4million a year, which was far worse given that the population in the U.S. was significantly smaller. And when they were born they weren’t even capable of providing for themselves like immigrants are, who are pretty much immediately capable of providing for themselves. If we were able to handle twice the amount of baby boomers who sat on their asses not working for a minimum of a decade and a half, we can handle proportionally half the number of immigrants who are pretty much immediately able to start working and contributing to society and taxes.

And the already manageable numbers will die down again soon provided we stop raping central and latin america. The U.S. played a huge part in causing this issue. It’s only fair that we play part in handling the fallout.