Folks, one nice thing about natural law is that we can identify what is obvious. With natural law, we have the advantage of being able to see and use what is obvious. No fancy degrees needed—just eyes open and a mind willing to think straight. I’m James Quillian, economist, political analyst, and teacher of natural law. I speak plain, with the same authority as anyone living in reality. Let’s talk about this migration mess in the U.S., straight up.
The Shift That’s Plain as Day
Last year, 2025, the U.S. saw more folks leaving than coming in—something that hasn’t happened since the Great Depression. Net negative migration, they call it. Numbers from places like the Census Bureau show immigration dropped from 2.7 million in 2024 to about 1.3 million in 2025, leading to a loss of around 150,000 people by early 2026. States like California and New York are feeling it hard, flipping from growth to loss.