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That's also bad for US salaries as those visa holders have less mobility and thus drive the equilibrium price down. It's a lose/lose in the name of "ma jobs"...

USA also has the Green Card Lottery which provides 50k visas per year.

Each 100k is 0.03% of the US population. So it is not much.

It added about 1.5M since 1990 which is a huge number.

According to [0] there are more than 3.5 million births per year, so a bit more than 100 million since 1990. 1.5% isn’t insignificant, but I wouldn’t call it huge.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/195908/number-of-births-...

There's also L1 visas, O, etc.