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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?"
Actually it used to be much harder - you used to have to be northern European, educated or affluent.
Is it broken down by origin, class, etc? If we parametrize financial success then it may make sense to prioritize certain countries, classes, etc for immigration while filtering out the less successful, for the sake economy, because that's what's important of course.
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>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…
80% of Germany is ethnic Germans (including repatriated Germans). No U.S. state is that homogeneous.
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I'd be really curious about his viewpoints on the current US political landscape, considering he experienced real, actual fascism and not the label everyone throws around willy-nilly trying to tar and feather each other. Personally, whenever I hear the terms racist or fascist thrown around, racism and fascism never actually enter my mind, or at least extremely rarely. I just think "Oh, another person who disagrees wi…
That's a little difficult given that he died in 2016. There are not so many people left alive who remember the hard end of WW2-era fascism. The one I always refer people to, written in 1995 but applicable to any time, is Umberto Eco's "Ur-Fascism". http://www.pegc.us/archive/Articles/eco_ur-fascism.pdf - written from his personal experience as a young boy in fascist Italy at the time of its liberation. The full essay…
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The policy before Trump was to hold children who arrive unaccompanied at the border and find their family to reunite them with. The policy under Trump is a zero-tolerance separate all children from their parents policy. Trump HHS currently cannot account for around 6000 children they have separated. This is new. The new rules around immigration seem to be focused around overwhelming the system's capacity for processi…
If you call them concentration camps, if you call them private prisons, if you call them anything besides detention facilities, you likely haven't thought about it much, because only a detention center will allow you to sign up to be let go back at the border. "Hey, I've decided this sucks, I'd like to head back home," is something you only say when being processed at the border in a queue.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/immigrants-free-leave-dete...
Definitely some selection bias. Many wealthy people in the US are immigrants. Also, many wealthy people probably choose to immigrate to the US to start their business because of lower barriers to entry. EDIT: Also, if this [1] is correct, 13.7% of people in the US are immigrants. So how many people are immigrants OR first-gen? And since ANY of the founders can be immigrants/first-gen, more founders means higher likel…
Yup. By this criteria, if I (an adult-aged Canadian) decided to take my startup to Silicon Valley, it would be an 'immigrant' founded startup. My situation would also be completely unlike the scenarios that are dominating the immigration debate in the US at the moment.
Aren't already established/rich and successful foreigners more likely to migrate and set up shop here? 45% shouldn't be a surprise if so, you are basically comparing against the cream of the crop from every other country.
I care less about what anyone thinks is likely and care more about the actual data. My parents were immigrants. My mother raised kids while my dad had two jobs that paid minimum wage. My annual comp at my day job is > $400K. My older sibling is a medical doctor. My family certainly came from no privilege at all. The only advantage we had was my father getting the opportunity to immigrate to the US. Saying that 45% is…
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Actually it used to be much harder - you used to have to be northern European, educated or affluent.
In most cases, don't you still have to educated and/or affluent?
~750K family based immigrants with no requirement for education and wealth requirements in the range of being slightly above poverty for some categories. ~120K refugees, with no requirements ~30K asylees, with no requirements ~50K diversity, with high school education requirement
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140K employment based, who you might call educated and/or affluent as it includes investors and people with advanced degrees.
1. https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/yearbook/2017/tab...
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In most cases, don't you still have to educated and/or affluent?
From the 2015-2017 yearbook [1]: ~750K family based immigrants with no requirement for education and wealth requirements in the range of being slightly above poverty for some categories. ~120K refugees, with no requirements ~30K asylees, with no requirements ~50K diversity, with high school education requirement vs 140K employment based, who you might call educated and/or affluent as it includes investors and people…
I follow the subreddit r/IWantOut. Every day, someone asks about coming to the US, and we tell pretty much all of them "better get a Masters in Engineering first." The fact is, most people who would like to immigrate to the US are not refugees or related to US citizens. For most of them, the bar actually is that high. That we accept a lot of people from categories that not many people fall into, including ones that I would barely count as immigration (eg. "Child of a US citizen"), doesn't have much impact on the general case.
Additionally, I think it's important to consider the practical barriers in the system, not just the text of the laws. From what I've heard, the paperwork and fees involved can cost thousands of dollars, and the regulations are so complex that you need either top-notch English reading skills, or a lawyer.
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From the 2015-2017 yearbook [1]: ~750K family based immigrants with no requirement for education and wealth requirements in the range of being slightly above poverty for some categories. ~120K refugees, with no requirements ~30K asylees, with no requirements ~50K diversity, with high school education requirement vs 140K employment based, who you might call educated and/or affluent as it includes investors and people…
I'm not sure that this actually contradicts what I said. I follow the subreddit r/IWantOut. Every day, someone asks about coming to the US, and we tell pretty much all of them "better get a Masters in Engineering first." The fact is, most people who would like to immigrate to the US are not refugees or related to US citizens. For most of them, the bar actually is that high. That we accept a lot of people from categor…