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Not with immigration.

_t9ow 1y ago
Immigration will take a nosedive under Trump.
peterfirefly 1y ago
That's not necessarily a good thing. Do the New Americans want the same things as the pre-existing ones? Are they as capable? Not just "in a few generations" but here and now? Are they even likely to be as capable "in a few generations"? If the statistics aren't very wrong, it doesn't seem like a solution.
- marxplank 1y ago
  Indian Americans make the most money in America, I’m sure immigrants can be capable
  - horns4lyfe 1y ago
    “Making the most money” isn’t the same as building a society people want to live in
    - slt2021 1y ago
      by all statistics, it is Americans that make the life in the USA insufferable: corrupt politicians, oligarchs, lobbyists, party leaders, and criminals (the ones that sell drugs and shoot people). go to any county/state jail and try to find a single H-1B visa holder there... its all home grown foundational Americans, raised on McDonalds and Coke
ezst 1y ago
Don't worry, Republicans are hard at work making the USA a pariah state and turning away the educated migrants who've been behind most of the innovation and research of past decades.
- vixen99 1y ago
  What, non-migrant Americans are not up to it?
  - unethical_ban 1y ago
    The US has benefited quite a bit by being a magnet for some of the most educated and driven people from around the world. This is not a controversial take. Now, legal resident noncitizens are being deported for having political views that oppose the ruling executive party. This is not normal in the US.
slt2021 1y ago
Immigration is a double edge sword. Sure, it brings highly educated people on the top end, but also less educated at the bottom curve. and on balance it changes demographics dramatically, that also shapes US policy in the future. It will be harder for USA to continue to be bloody warmongering machine with Military industrial complex dictating the policy and bombing countries and blowing up civilians around the world.
spaceman_2020 1y ago
Immigration isn’t risk free You get your birth rates up, but you also risk alienating your native born population and electing far right morons into office Jury’s out on whether a tfr of 1.0 of native born people is better than a tfr of 1.4 with immigrants

Immigration will take a nosedive under Trump.

That's not necessarily a good thing. Do the New Americans want the same things as the pre-existing ones? Are they as capable? Not just "in a few generations" but here and now? Are they even likely to be as capable "in a few generations"? If the statistics aren't very wrong, it doesn't seem like a solution.

marxplank 1y ago
Indian Americans make the most money in America, I’m sure immigrants can be capable
- horns4lyfe 1y ago
  “Making the most money” isn’t the same as building a society people want to live in
  - slt2021 1y ago
    by all statistics, it is Americans that make the life in the USA insufferable: corrupt politicians, oligarchs, lobbyists, party leaders, and criminals (the ones that sell drugs and shoot people). go to any county/state jail and try to find a single H-1B visa holder there... its all home grown foundational Americans, raised on McDonalds and Coke

ezst 1y ago

Don't worry, Republicans are hard at work making the USA a pariah state and turning away the educated migrants who've been behind most of the innovation and research of past decades.

vixen99 1y ago
What, non-migrant Americans are not up to it?
- unethical_ban 1y ago
  The US has benefited quite a bit by being a magnet for some of the most educated and driven people from around the world. This is not a controversial take. Now, legal resident noncitizens are being deported for having political views that oppose the ruling executive party. This is not normal in the US.

slt2021 1y ago

Immigration is a double edge sword. Sure, it brings highly educated people on the top end, but also less educated at the bottom curve. and on balance it changes demographics dramatically, that also shapes US policy in the future. It will be harder for USA to continue to be bloody warmongering machine with Military industrial complex dictating the policy and bombing countries and blowing up civilians around the world.

spaceman_2020 1y ago

Immigration isn’t risk free You get your birth rates up, but you also risk alienating your native born population and electing far right morons into office Jury’s out on whether a tfr of 1.0 of native born people is better than a tfr of 1.4 with immigrants