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>...according to a new study by New American Economy, a bipartisan pro-immigration group.
What I'm not seeing much of in the comments is how the debate around immigration has come to a very alarming place, with most of it having nothing to do with what actually occurs in reality. In my honest opinion, that discussion is far more important than the specifics of this study.
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Japan, Korea, Germany are also in line and also India (with successful space program without immigrants). There are many countries which are successful without immigrants, some of them are even democracies.
>Japan, Korea, Germany are also in line and also India (with successful space program without immigrants). This is just plain wrong, in the case of Germany. Germany has a huge immigrant population, and has since WWII when they brought in tons of Turks to be laborers there. There's an enormous Turkish population in Germany, and it's not new. Germany probably would not be where it is now without them. Japan and Korea d…
I contrast this with literally dozens of people I know, some good friends of mine who are here to only make money so they can return back to the native country--they do not consider themselves to be American, nor do they consider America their home, and indeed still refer to their native land as "my country". American can function as a Nation with some residents having this visitor attitude--but Not with 10s of millions of people who simply reside here. It's common sense.
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Because putting a certain race in literal concentration camps isn’t fascism but just different opinions.
People losing their minds over this would sound a lot more sincere and principled if they'd been even half as upset about Obama placing kids in actual cages with a much higher per capita death rate. Now they just sound like ideologues grinding a political axe. But maybe that's just my differing opinion.
Are we talking about Immigrants that went through the legal process?
The legal process is a very movable barrier and has changed over time to make it much harder. It might be interesting to ask "how many of these people would, if they had applied under the current rules rather than those of the time, have been turned away?"
Are we talking about Immigrants that went through the legal process?
Technically, everyone is immigrant. Not sure why people call themselves native Americans ever. That entire country built on blood and violence of some guys that had some gold in their pocket to buy ships and sale swords. Thats it.