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Never mind resource constraints. Suppose a billion plumbers move to the US. By your and by "economists'" reasoning, this will not drive down the price of hiring a plumber at all, since although competition will reduce the price, the economy is not fixed, and more plumber jobs will be available, compensating for this.
Furthermore, if adding more people doesn't reduce the number of or the pay for jobs, then it necessarily follows that removing people shouldn't increase the number of or the pay for jobs. Do you seriously believe that if half the plumbers dropped dead, the price of hiring a plumber wouldn't go up, and the remaining plumbers wouldn't find it easier to get jobs?
Let me try another argument.
Would you rather:
1) Pay taxes to pay for a plumber's schooling, starting with kindergarten or 2) Have foreigners pay taxes to pay for a plumber's schooling, and then have the plumber immigrate to your country?
It costs a lot of money to educate a child. When you let in an educated immigrant, your country gets all the benefits of that immigrant's education without having to pay for it.
The original question compares extra immigrants to doing nothing. It doesn't compare extra immigrants to extra natives. Your suggestion that extra immigrants are better than extra natives is irrelevant to the question, even if true.
(And if I was a plumber, I wouldn't want either extra immigrant plumbers or extra native plumbers. There is a reason that cartels try to limit the number of people in a profession.)