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US had net negative migration in 2025 for the first time in decades: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/01/14/immigra...
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Fascinating to see that MENA is a net positive on migration. There's often a lot of rhetoric around MENA migration to Europe and North America, but you hear much less about migration to MENA countries.
I think people underestimate how many people move back to their home country once they have a better chance (through e.g. education or money) and / or when the situation there improves (e.g. stability). It's why I don't understand why the anti-immigration parties don't do more internationally to help other countries.
Still imperialistic and self serving in many ways, but it worked.
On the other hand, I've recently talked with a Polish to US immigrant who was moving back to Poland this summer as jobs and more had improved. They were competitive (in his mind) with the lack of opportunity and anti immigrant thinking across the US today.
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More people creates more economic activity and higher productivity, which is deflationary. Fewer people lowers productivity and depresses economic activity, causing inflation. You have it backwards - the real economy is not a closed system with fixed amounts of positions and finite money needing zero sum thinking.
I can assure you mass immigration is not good for the working class families of this country despite what an economist might say in aggregate. The reality is more people drives up the costs of food, shelter, medicine, and other resources that are not very elastic.
Don’t overthink it.
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You don't have to pay taxes nor social security for 20+ years in order to become a citizen in very many countries. You can live on benefits before becoming a citizen and after becoming a citizen. Usually the requirement is that you are a resident for a set number of years in order to become a citizen.
> You can live on benefits before becoming a citizen and after becoming a citizen What benefits? I don't know every country in the world, in Germany unless you count retirement as a benefit (which is something you pay for and have to reach a certain age that is ever moving upwards) you don't get any assistance if you're not living in the country.
Benefits aren't collected in cash, they are sent to bank accounts. The beneficiary can be anywhere.
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You’re assuming everything else can’t grow to absorb the demand. In general it does - new housing, job creation, all of it. What you’re really seeing is when something - often policy - gets in the way and a place ends up underbuilt. It’s still a problem but it’s one with different solutions.
Especially when the real numbers of immigrants is much higher.
It takes time to train more doctors, to raise more cattle, and to build more homes. Way more than the rate of immigration over the last 30 years.
It makes rich families richer though. But it hasn’t been good for working people and the community culture the country once had.
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Or move back to your home country once you've gained a beneficial citizenship and can have foreign government benefits paid out every month while you don't even live in that country anymore.
What country pays out benefits to non-residents?
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Why "correctly"? Who says that a country or a group of humans or even an individual human is beyond saving?
> Who says that a country or a group of humans or even an individual human is beyond saving? The one doing the saving. Surely the one needing help should not be the to decide. They will always say “I’m worth saving”.
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Perhaps. I think it's more about the passport ranking so one can travel and also the salary bump. But even if more of the other government services, try living in a country where if you get into a serious car accident you have to pay cash at the ER before they treat you. Scrambling to find multiple thousands of dollars in cash at 3am sometimes. (This happened to my friend in Kenya) Im not sure if I can blame people f…
I think a very low percentage of migrants do it so that they can get a better passport for traveling. Sure, there are people who do that also.
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Perhaps. I think it's more about the passport ranking so one can travel and also the salary bump. But even if more of the other government services, try living in a country where if you get into a serious car accident you have to pay cash at the ER before they treat you. Scrambling to find multiple thousands of dollars in cash at 3am sometimes. (This happened to my friend in Kenya) Im not sure if I can blame people f…
Is it legal to let people suffer or even die at the ER on Kenya if they don’t happen to carry a few k$?
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And if you pay taxes and social security for 20+ years why wouldn’t you be entitled to it? Especially considering you wouldn’t be using expensive programs like Medicare.
You don't have to pay taxes nor social security for 20+ years in order to become a citizen in very many countries. You can live on benefits before becoming a citizen and after becoming a citizen. Usually the requirement is that you are a resident for a set number of years in order to become a citizen.