Roy Beck Uses Gumballs to Explain Why Immigration Won’t Solve World Poverty

In this video, author and journalist Roy Beck of Numbers USA discusses the idea that mass immigration into the United States won’t help reduce world poverty. He argues that while the United States takes in 1 million legal immigrants every year on average, there are still billions of people in the world who live below the poverty line.

Roy Beck uses a gumball analogy to illustrate that even if the United States were to double its immigration to 2 million a year, it would still not make a noticeable difference in reducing world poverty. He suggests that instead, efforts should be made to help people living in poverty where they are, rather than relying on immigration as a solution.