Michigan's Births Lowest Since 1944

[Bham1982]

Huh? The United states has more foreign born residents than any other country in this planet,

This is meaningless. The only more populous countries are China and India, so obviously the U.S. will have the most immigrants. The U.S. accepts roughly half the immigrants of our competitor nations [[proportionally). We should obviously be compared to Germany, Canada, Australia, Switzerland, not dirt-poor third world countries.

and the percentage rate is at above most European countries

Most European countries are comparatively poor. The rich European countries have much higher rates of immigration than the U.S. Yes, obviously the U.S. has more immigrants than Hungary, Albania or Portugal.

and far above that of large competing countries such a China or Japan.

Well, duh. China is poor and Japan is dying.

The truth is as this recent wave of foreign residents has grown rapidly in the last two decades our standing in the world hasn't increased, it has fallen.

The opposite is true. As the U.S. share of immigration has fallen, the U.S. economy has fallen. As Canada, Australia and Germany added more immigrants [[who otherwise would have gone to U.S.) those countries have risen.

With the threat of technology eliminating the need for workers,

Technology creates far more jobs than it destroys. We have a worker shortage.

dwindling resources and a rapidly warming planet we should be thankful that our population isn't rapidly growing.

Immigrants have lower birthrates in the U.S. than in their former countries, so that makes no sense. If you care about "dwindling resources and rapidly warming planet" you would want as many immigrants as possible in the U.S., where affluence drives down nativity.