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You complain about these articles providing little to no statistics, but then you jump to personal anecdotes with no statistics, and for good measure let’s add
by chaostheory 7y ago
You complain about these articles providing little to no statistics, but then you jump to personal anecdotes with no statistics, and for good measure let’s add some anti immigration sentiment as well which is also not backed by any numbers
- whatthesmack 7y ago> [...] let’s add some anti immigration sentiment [...] They didn’t say that. They said “unauthorized immigrants”. Most people aren’t anti-immigration, but rather against unauthorized immigration.
- chaostheory 7y agoIf we’re being honest they’re the nearly the same thing given the ever increasing restrictions to legal immigration to the point where it’s starting to hurt US R&D
- i_am_nomad 7y agoI'm not the New York Times, I'm n=1. I can't really generate my own statistics. And see the other person's reply about immigration vs. illegal immigration.
- chaostheory 7y agoYou don’t need to be the NY times to collect data when we have the internet. We live in the 21st century now, and not the 20th. Here’s some data on chronic homelessness: https://www.usich.gov/resources/uploads/asset_library/Homelessness-in-America-Focus-on-chronic.pdf https://www.usich.gov/resources/uploads/asset_library/Homele... That took me less than a minute to find, though it’s not the first source I’ve read on the subject The recurring theme between several studies is that of the homeless, 80% are able to recover in less than a year; while 20% are chronically homeless due to mental disabilities or drug addiction I just find it ironic that you complain about a practice that you do yourself