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Could you explain how 2) is controversial? I'm not from the US myself - is the amount of immigration not a product of political policy? At least legal immigrati

Could you explain how 2) is controversial? I'm not from the US myself - is the amount of immigration not a product of political policy? At least legal immigration, which I believe is significantly larger than illegal. As for 3) part 1 ("by Democrats"), that's more than controversial - it's outright false, at least the implication that it's only Democrats. Dig up any graph of yearly legal immigration to the US, and there's no significant reduction during Republican administrations.

dragonwriter 3y ago
> Could you explain how 2) is controversial? I didn’t claim it was, I claimed that the article did. (That said, I will now claim it: #2 is controversial.) > is the amount of immigration not a product of political policy? At least legal immigration, which I believe is significantly larger than illegal. (1) A thing can be a product of political policy without being a deliberate effect; (E.g., there are unlimited categories in US legal immigration, e.g., close family of US citizens; the quantity that do immigrate in this category is a “product of” that policy, but the specific quantity is not a direct policy choice; rather, a policy choice has been made that it splitting close families of citizens by limiting immigration in that group is undesirable, irrespective of quantity), and (2) The amount of immigration is not the same thing as the demographic shift, it is only one contributor to it; things like relative birthrates among demographic groups in society, intermarriage rates, and lots of other things play roles.