More people are fleeing the ill effects of liberalism than can be replaced by immigration

Bloomberg:
Immigration to the U.S. has failed to make up for the number of residents leaving New York, Los Angeles and Chicago -- the nation’s top three metropolitan areas.

Chicago -- beset by crime, economic and budgetary woes and high taxes -- is the net exodus leader among 100 metro areas tracked by Bloomberg using Census Bureau data for the year through July 1, 2016. An average 245 local residents left the Windy City each day compared with the arrival of 71 foreigners. Census doesn’t inquire about a person’s citizenship status.
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As Chicago struggles, so does Illinois. Last year, the net number of business establishments in the Prairie State fell by 1,235 from 2015, the worst performance of any state in the union, Bureau of Labor Statistics data show.

For the nation’s third most-populous metropolitan area, foreign immigration “is the only offset we’ve got and it would be tragic to lose,” said Diane Swonk, chief executive and founder of DS Economics in Chicago.

As for the broader economic implications, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia President Patrick Harker is among some U.S. central bank officials who have suggested labor shortages across the entire country could be aggravated by government steps to crack down on illegal immigration, a political hot-button issue amid outcries that undocumented foreign workers are taking American jobs.

In the New York metropolitan area, financial-hub Manhattan prospers while old factory towns such as Paterson, New Jersey, and Waterbury, Connecticut, languish. The region registered an average daily loss of 548 local residents against a gain of 394 foreigners, according to the data.

While Los Angeles gained more than 54,000 international migrants, it lost more than 87,000 people due to domestic migration, the third-worst outflow in the country. On the bright side, Census data show there were 166,913 births in the City of Angels in the year ended July 1, 2016, second only to New York City with 247,502.
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Meanwhile, Dallas Houston Phoenix and Atlanta are gaining over a 100 people a day in moves to red state cities.   I am guessing the the Chicago lost population figure does not include all the homicide victims in that city.  But the lost population may be a clue as to why these cities seem desperate to bring in immigrant population whether here legally or not.

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