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Your first link is to a poll indicating a year-over-year spike that has by simple procedural timing not yet been subjected to public opinion in light of an impo
by benreesman 2y ago
Your first link is to a poll indicating a year-over-year spike that has by simple procedural timing not yet been subjected to public opinion in light of an important vote of any kind. Time will tell on that.
Your second link is a liberal education in how partisan think tanks cook surveys to push their agenda. The Cato Institute is the de facto PR arm of Koch Industries and you insult the HN readership by even serving that at our table.
Your third assertion would be interesting if substantiated and contextualized: where do I get robust information about the Biden administration breaking with previous administrations on defying the public consensus by a factor of 5? Or were net inflows substantially the same under the last three administrations hailing from both major parties?
You’ve been around here a long time, and you’re clearly a very smart person, and I have a lot of respect for both.
But I’ve been around longer, and I’ll kindly but firmly remind you to leave the partisan pamphleteering on the whole rest of the Internet.
- rayiner 2y agoThe first link is a poll that’s been taken regularly since 1965. That poll shows that support for increasing immigration has never exceeded 25% since 1965. But since 1965 we have pursued a policy of increasing immigration. Cato is a libertarian think thank that supports open borders so the Koch brothers can have cheap labor. My point is that even their survey shows that most Americans want a low level of immigration, half that of the current levels. They spin the headlines to point to the fact that few people want to cut immigration to zero, but the data still shows that people’s ideal immigration level is under 500,000 or so annually.