10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023

Post by konschubert » Sat, Jul 20, 2024, 11:27 PM UTC

selfmodruntime wrote: post #256

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…

> it seems to me there is significant brain drain from many countries to the U.S. and that contributes to our success This enables wage suppression

Post by lo0dot0 » Sat, Jul 20, 2024, 11:30 PM UTC

epolanski wrote: post #178

kjellsbells wrote: post #137

The problem commonly skated over is that two views cam be true at once. For example: - the "Batista" regime was dictatorial and repressive. The people fought back with Castro. The first wave of people to land in Miami were essentially the moneyed class who lost everything. Unsurprisingly they hate the Castro regime and its descendents. The US government were happy to accommodate them under the guise of anti communism…

> the "Castro" regime is dictatorial and repressive. As someone whose family comes from the former Soviet union, and has friends that come from other repressive places let me tell you that this really doesn't matter. Economy and how you are doing are what matters in the day to day life of people. People really don't think about the oppression or lack of elections, they care how much they need to suffer to put food on…

Post by AnarchismIsCool » Sat, Jul 20, 2024, 11:32 PM UTC

tonynator wrote: post #306

michaelhoney wrote: post #286

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the obsession with gun rights is doing your country far more harm than highly intelligent immigrants ever will

Imagine being a European and not being allowed to defend yourself lol

Post by maximinus_thrax » Sat, Jul 20, 2024, 11:33 PM UTC

tonynator wrote: post #297

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…

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Post by markdown » Sat, Jul 20, 2024, 11:35 PM UTC

zozbot234 wrote: post #189

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…

These jobs are low-paying because they're broadly unproductive. If some of them weren't doing these jobs, the wages paid for them at the margin would increase. We are vastly better off importing more skilled immigrants to high-income countries, compared to unskilled ones.