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> they could always immigrate legally The current immigration system makes that impossible for most workers without degrees and from outside of a few select co
by ch4s3 6y ago
> they could always immigrate legally
The current immigration system makes that impossible for most workers without degrees and from outside of a few select countries.
- cheph 6y agoSo then they can go somewhere else. There are billion of people living outside of the US. To suggest they are slaves because they chose to illegally enter the US makes no sense.
- ch4s3 6y agoI never said that, just that legal immigration to the US is basically closed to everyone, which is historically unusual for the US. I also think it's antithetical to the American project.
- cheph 6y agoSo then how are these people slaves if they could just not voluntarily choose to illegally enter a systemically racist country where people of color are hunted by cops like dogs and treated as subhuman trash by all white people?
- ch4s3 6y agoI never said any of those things, just that legal immigration barely exists.
- cheph 6y agoI was responding to someone saying illegal immigrants in the US are slaves because they immigrated illegally instead of not doing that.
- ch4s3 6y agoI disagree with the degree severity of the OP’s statement. But US foreign policy coupled with shifts in climate (political and meteorological?) have made large parts of Central America pretty unlivable. To the extent the we are responsible for the state of affairs in Central America, we should be taking in refuges and economic migrants.
- jessedhillon 6y agoWhere are you getting that information? Near as I can tell, the share of foreign born people who have degrees is similar to the share of all Americans with degrees: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/09/14/education-levels-of-u-s-immigrants-are-on-the-rise/%3famp=1 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2... Unfortunately this source doesn't break out those who entered with degrees from those who attained degrees in the US. But I have to imagine that many of those are in the latter camp, meaning they entered without degrees. Either way, the majority don't have any degree according to this. How does your claim square with these facts?