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Although the USA has problems, it is a "no-risk" to "little-risk" proposition provided you make it to the USA. (I am talking about the legal routes.) I can't q

• forapurpose 8y ago
  > it is a "no-risk" to "little-risk" proposition provided you make it to the USA. (I am talking about the legal routes.) That's just absurd. People who were born in the U.S. face many risks. > get out of the way already and let immigrants take your place Nobody is taking anybody's place. Economics is not zero sum; the better your neighbor does, the better you do. Your successful neighbors are your employers, customers, taxpayers, etc. > if you aren't being 100% economically productive RIGHT THIS MINUTE, just get out of the way already ... That's not a problem with immigration; it's a problem with U.S. government policy that doesn't educate, provide health care for, feed, or house its citizens, and concentrates economic opportunity in the hands of a very few. Those things are clearly doable, because almost every other wealthy country does them much better. And the political leaders who oppose such things, and continually try to 'shrink' government, try to distract attention from their responsibility (and the responsibility of their wealthy constituents who try to avoid paying taxes) by blaming immigrants.