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10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023

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Re: 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023

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Post by Xen9 »

gottorf wrote: post #201
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…

> I'm not concerned about the crime You may not be concerned about the crime, but many voters are. The author of the article you linked to also exhorts the Somali immigrant community to not engage in crime. > because that seems like a somewhat higher tendency until the 2nd and 3rd generation is able to make it into established society. History and data from various European nations suggest that some immigrant groups…

Slightly tangentially, there exists huge amount of immigration studies that have failed (intently or not) to take confounders into account :(

Re: 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023

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Post by zozbot234 »

selfmodruntime wrote: post #260
apsec112 wrote: post #241

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Trump supported a plan to reduce legal immigration by half: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/us/politics/trump-immigra...

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Lowering wages and salaries for skilled workers has a big disinflationary effect and slashes inequality. (The bulk of inequality is indeed due to skill-biased divergence in labor income, not passive or unearned income from asset ownership.)

Re: 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023

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Post by saagarjha »

selfmodruntime wrote: post #260
apsec112 wrote: post #241

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Trump supported a plan to reduce legal immigration by half: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/us/politics/trump-immigra...

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So, you do understand how this exactly demonstrates how you are anti-immigration, not just anti-illegal immigration?

Re: 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023

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Post by selfmodruntime »

aegis4244 wrote: post #255
pton_xd wrote: post #172

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> 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.

Economists say every immigrant is a net economic positive to the nation. They eat,buy food clothing, cars. Every immigrant child is a net negative to the state,at least until they turn 18. But it isn't even. Net neg per kid of maybe 800 a year, positive of each adult of 1200-1600 are the numbers I've heard on freakonomics podcast. Their guests proposed solution was to have the feds pay the states per an immigrant chi…

> Economists say every immigrant is a net economic positive to the nation

This isn’t true in general and depends on the local economy and the immigrants country of origin. MENA migrants are a net loss for Germany, for example.

Even if economists agree, the money these immigrants spend lands in the pockets of rich capitalists.

The entire topic is far more nuanced than you make it out to be.

Re: 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023

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Post by [deleted] »

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.

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Re: 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023

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Post by selfmodruntime »

saagarjha wrote: post #263
selfmodruntime wrote: post #260

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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So, you do understand how this exactly demonstrates how you are anti-immigration, not just anti-illegal immigration?

I am not the original commenter. I am not anti immigration. I am merely critical of it. We need skilled healthcare workers. Instead giant corporations are focusing on importing software engineers o drive down wages.

Re: 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023

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Post by selfmodruntime »

zozbot234 wrote: post #262
selfmodruntime wrote: post #260

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Lowering wages and salaries for skilled workers has a big disinflationary effect and slashes inequality. (The bulk of inequality is indeed due to skill-biased divergence in labor income, not passive or unearned income from asset ownership.)

I agree if we look at through a purely economical lense, but you can’t deny that this statement may sour some voters opinions.

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Post by sharkjacobs »

saagarjha wrote: post #263
selfmodruntime wrote: post #260

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So, you do understand how this exactly demonstrates how you are anti-immigration, not just anti-illegal immigration?

anti-illegal immigration and pro-illegalizing immigration

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Post by amanaplanacanal »

yieldcrv wrote: post #254
amanaplanacanal wrote: post #229

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that's not my interpretation, the opposition party votes as a bloc against everything until they aren't the opposition party any more. democrats do that too. neither party can pass a filibuster in the senate so it doesn't matter, it isn't about any party position. republicans support setting H1B visas at the same standard it was created for in 1991. I support that. I support linking the standards of minimum compensat…

That’s wrong on its face, since some legislation does get passed. They don’t oppose everything, they are selective. It’s strictly for political points.

If Republican voters supported more immigration, it could happen. They just don’t. And calling people brought here as children by their parents criminals is ridiculous.

Re: 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023

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Post by philk10 »

apsec112 wrote: post #241
mensetmanusman wrote: post #214

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Republicans are strongly anti-illegal immigration, and that appears anti-immigration to some.

Trump supported a plan to reduce legal immigration by half: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/us/politics/trump-immigra...

As an immigrant in the US I looked at the plans ( produced by Stephen Miller) and would not have qualified to be admitted.
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