There is another empty lot (not shown) the same size as the one mentioned above.Korean gov. has finally put in a vice prime minister in charge of budget and economy thats going to relax the regulations and get the money flowing in the domestic market that may finally get the project going and also bring the real estate market to a upbeat state.

The border provides stable employment & it seems to house a large immigrant population. 

Rich Chinese investors/immigrants brought into the investor immigrant program so they could buy there way into the country.

At the time, we were in the middle of a lengthy, stressful, and expensive immigration process as well as planning a destination wedding and midterms at the school he was teaching at.  

Had to do with the economy, not immigration.

My parents and I are immigrants who came over from Vietnam in 1984.

As a minister, your dads podcast was for sure the best one I have listened to.

The population growth rate is already lower than it has been in 50 years. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/30/us/usa-population-growth-decline-census.html.With immigration down, birth rates down, and a virus that might kill 1% of the population, we're looking at an inevitable population decline.

I am an immigrant from Georgia, living in the US for 6 years now.

So when we complain that the intellectually and physically disabled man who has his voucher, SSI, and Medicaid-paid family care all being hijacked by his extended family so that they can all use his one bedroom unit as a crash pad, and a place to get high, and to terrorize the neighbors and the LL, we suddenly find that the agency has "accidentally" not paid their portion, or that it's perfectly acceptable to them that a tenant gives one day's notice that they're moving out, and we wind up not getting paid.We have also had Sec 8 offer to pay us 125% of market value (and in our opinion, probably 150% of market value) to house an enormous immigrant family that lives as if they were still living in the stone age.