10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023

Post by whimsicalism » Sat, Jul 20, 2024, 9:42 PM UTC

pton_xd wrote: post #172

labrador wrote: post #107

I support immigration and oppose the Republican anti-immigrant platform because it seems to me there is significant brain drain from many countries to the U.S. and that contributes to our success. For example, in this article is about white collar crime, it points out that many Somali-Americans were professionals back in Somalia. I'm not concerned about the crime because that seems like a somewhat higher tendency unt…

> the Republican anti-immigrant platform because it seems to me there is significant brain drain from many countries to the U.S. and that contributes to our success. Explain how unskilled illegal immigrants contribute to our success. I'm open minded but I've yet to hear anything convincing. No one is opposed to the legal immigration of skilled workers.

Post by whimsicalism » Sat, Jul 20, 2024, 9:44 PM UTC

dgfitz wrote: post #190

torpfactory wrote: post #183

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There’s a very sizable number of low paying, dirty, dangerous, and/or boring jobs that we can’t find enough locals to do. Think farm hands, home care aides, meat processors, etc. Unskilled immigrants do those jobs because that’s what is available to them (I.e unskilled). If they weren’t doing those jobs, we’d have to pay significantly more for the goods and services that labor depends on. Immigrant labor is disinflat…

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Post by jfengel » Sat, Jul 20, 2024, 9:45 PM UTC

greenchair wrote: post #151

labrador wrote: post #107

I support immigration and oppose the Republican anti-immigrant platform because it seems to me there is significant brain drain from many countries to the U.S. and that contributes to our success. For example, in this article is about white collar crime, it points out that many Somali-Americans were professionals back in Somalia. I'm not concerned about the crime because that seems like a somewhat higher tendency unt…

correction: anti-illegal immigrant platform. the 3rd worlder influx of criminals is negative for the country not positive.

Post by ImJamal » Sat, Jul 20, 2024, 9:48 PM UTC

chmod775 wrote: post #153

vundercind wrote: post #27

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A bunch of Floridians who are, or are descended from, folks who had their land and businesses seized during the revolution are holding grudges and won’t let go of them until they’re given their stuff back or a ton of money, which, this far on, isn’t happening. Florida is important in Presidential elections. US elections are structured such that dumb stuff like a relatively small—but loud—and also hopeless interest in…

> A bunch of Floridians who are, or are descended from, folks who had their land and businesses seized during the revolution are holding grudges They should've learned from the French making sure there's nobody left to hold a grudge.

Post by ThePowerOfFuet » Sat, Jul 20, 2024, 9:49 PM UTC

basisword wrote: post #53

It's interesting reading the opinions in the comments on this thread. As a non-US person, I don't have a strong opinion on Cuba. I'd like to visit someday but don't know much about it other than the headlines. Reading the comments here it sounds like a pariah state on the level of North Korea. With 1m people leaving in a year, it clearly has its issues - but lots of the comments here are a good example of how your co…