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It matters because given the current climate of anti-immigrant rhetoric, immigration may become nigh on impossible. If this had happened a few decades ago there
by SeanDav 11y ago
It matters because given the current climate of anti-immigrant rhetoric, immigration may become nigh on impossible. If this had happened a few decades ago there would be no Steve Jobs and no Apple, and an important contribution to American culture/technology/economy would never have happened.
There is a rather long and impressive list of Billionaire and influential recent immigrants or children of immigrants.
- tosseraccount 11y agoBut are they statistically more likely to be rich than native born? I wouldn't confuse "anti-immigrant" with "anti-mass immigration". We may be better off with a simple, more modest, legal only, citizenship oriented, points system.
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- DanBC 11y agoSee also PG. But the anti-immigration crowd don't seem to mind so much if the people immigrating are white.