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   by 11_4_time 9y ago

   People haven't forgotten their origins at all; in fact most people are probably too overly proud of them. But times also change. What may have made sense in 1903 may be detrimental to the descendants of those immigrants today. I beli
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   by 11_4_time 9y ago

   That's from a poem tacked onto the Statue of Liberty in 1903, not U.S. law or policy. People quote that as if it's from the preamble to the constitution or something... Mass immigration made sense when the U.S. was a manufacturin
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   by 11_4_time 9y ago

   Europe will soon have a chance to test out your theory: https://assets.weforum.org/editor/wHXSXEN_EkCmuj8Jnb9I6EVD9g...
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   by 11_4_time 9y ago

   Yes I do. Up until recently they had about 50,000 illegal year.
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   by 11_4_time 9y ago

   The raw numbers aren't the issue. Switzerland hasn't had decades of sustained mass-immigration of low-skilled workers. The flow of immigrants to Switzerland is nothing like that into the United State.
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   by 11_4_time 9y ago

   I'll go out on a limb and suggest that the U.S. immigration policy (or lack thereof) bears a signification part of the blame here. Why in the face of globalization (and now increased automation) the U.S. continues to have an effectivel
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   by 11_4_time 9y ago

   They haven't had decades of sustained mass immigration of low-skilled workers.