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> Importing immigrants en masse is likely to cause a lot of social instability and isn't a decision that should be taken lightly. Look at it as an experiment.
by car_analogy 4y ago
> Importing immigrants en masse is likely to cause a lot of social instability and isn't a decision that should be taken lightly.
Look at it as an experiment. See what happens if you allow mass immigration. If you don't like the result, do what you'd do with any other policy - change it. ...Although I guess you'd be stuck with the immigrants you already imported. And they'd probably vote to continue immigration, as they have in the US.. in that sense, this is one policy choice that is largely irreversible.
- Mikeb85 4y ago> See what happens if you allow mass immigration. Sweden, Canada and others have already done that experiment.
- TeaDrunk 4y agoSweden, one of the best places to live? Hell yeah dude! Canada, also one of the best places to live? Also hell yeah dude!
- Ekaros 4y agoWhat is the direction Sweden is going? Is it getting better with the immigration it is doing? Or are things starting to look worse on some indicators?
- TeaDrunk 4y agoAs far as I know it is, remains, and hasn't changed from being one of the top 5 countries to live on the planet.
- Mikeb85 4y agoCanada, most expensive housing on earth and 20% GDP per Capita decline in the last decade... Sweden, constant riots and exponential increase in crime... Edit - Canada is an OK place to live, it's definitely become far worse in my lifetime though (mainly because of affordability). The plus side is tons of nature, if you're into that (I live in a mountain town but if I leave this town it's for Europe, not anywhere else in Canada).
- car_analogy 4y agoBefore immigration, was Sweden one of the worst places? And immigrants saw how poorly it was doing, thought to themselves "we must help them", and moved there to do just that?
- TeaDrunk 4y agoAs far as I know it is, remains, and hasn't changed from being one of the top 5 countries to live on the planet.
- soheil 4y agoIt's insane to compare the recent immigration policies of Sweden and Germany to the US. US still has some of the most stringent rules for who can come in regardless of what you hear in the news. Heterogeneity is not a homogenous quality, it can vary with spikes or with smooth curvature of slow population inflows over decades.
- car_analogy 4y ago> US still has some of the most stringent rules for who can come in regardless of what you hear in the news How stringent can these rules be, when the US has 13.7% foreign born population (counting only 1st generation immigrants)? And how stringently can they be enforced, when 11.4 million of those immigrants are there illegally? Source: https://usafacts.org/state-of-the-union/immigration/ https://usafacts.org/state-of-the-union/immigration/