Clamping down on immigration will go down as one of the greatest policy blunders in US history. The American people are about to find out the hard way that national economies are essentially pyramid schemes.

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esbranson 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Wishcasting. The US could let in tens of millions of immigrants in a single year.

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slaw 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It is better to stop pyramid scheme earlier than later.

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rexpop 14 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah, I am generally viscerally horrified by the procedures of ICE/CBP but I am still somewhat disgusted by liberals counterargument that we need immigrants to do jobs that are beneath us.

Nothing is beneath us, except what's beneath everyone.

	▲	ungreased0675 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes and, very little of the billions in AI spend seems to be aimed at boring, dangerous, or low-paying jobs.

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like_any_other 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

A Dutch study found that non-Western immigrants were a net drain on their economy:

https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/17569/the-long-term-fisc...

https://www.emilkirkegaard.com/p/good-immigrants-bad-immigra...

	▲	QuadmasterXLII 13 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Immigrants to europe are not statistically similar to immigrants to the US. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/political-backflow-from-eur...
	▲	none2585 13 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		lol quoting Kirkegaard here should tell you all you need to know about your slant on this topic
	▲	belviewreview 13 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		The US is much better at integrating immigrants into its society and making them economically productive.
	▲	esbranson 13 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
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