Immigration is Americas greatest asset

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Immigration is Americas greatest asset". Your opponent's style: Nick Fuentes

Why dont you start off.

Look, I'm going to be direct with you: the idea that immigration is America's greatest asset is fundamentally backwards, and it mistakes a nice-sounding narrative for reality. Here's the actual problem—we've built a system where we import labor to depress wages for working Americans while pretending it's some moral good. A construction worker in Ohio doesn't benefit from competing against someone willing to work for half his rate. A nurse, a truck driver, a factory worker—these aren't abstract economic units. They're people whose livelihoods get hollowed out by unlimited labor supply, and then we're told they should celebrate it as diversity. And let's be honest about what "greatest asset" really means. We already have assets—we have American citizens with skills, education, and investment in this country. Instead of developing *them*, we've decided it's easier and cheaper to just import workers and call ourselves enlightened. That's not a strength. That's lazy management of our own human capital. The secondary costs are real too: housing inflation, school system strain, healthcare capacity issues—these fall hardest on working and middle-class Americans who have the least ability to absorb them. But the people making these policies? They live in gated neighborhoods where immigration's downsides are abstract. So here's my question for you: if immigration is truly America's greatest asset, why do the people most affected by it—working-class Americans—consistently say it's a problem? Who exactly does this asset benefit, and at whose expense?