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All of us in the US are here as a direct result of immigration (except native Americans). If immigration causes "deteriorating solidarity and social insurance"

• rsj_hn 5y ago
  You really don't think the US has a weaker social safety net and less solidarity than Europe? And the issue isn't necessarily immigration per se as ethnic fractionalization. E.g. if a ton of French expats were to immigrate to France that would create different levels of social strife than, say, a ton of Russians entering France. There have been many studies on this, e.g. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2586963?seq=1 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2586963?seq=1 https://www.nber.org/papers/w20504 https://www.nber.org/papers/w20504 http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:4551797 http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:4551797 https://www.cgdev.org/sites/default/files/archive/doc/events/EthnicPublicGoods.pdf https://www.cgdev.org/sites/default/files/archive/doc/events...
• pessimizer 5y ago
  Imported slaves aren't immigrants.
• jlawson 5y ago
  Settlers are not immigrants in the normal sense of the word. There's a difference between moving to join a society and moving to land so you can spread your society onto it while ignoring/overruling anyone who might have been there. Also - I would say that from the point of view of the native Americans, the migration of Europeans into their land kind of did cause something like "deteriorating solidarity and social insurance". Wouldn't you? Can't you imagine why others would not want to suffer the same fate?