Reason Applied to Immigration

Posted by mshupe 1 year, 6 months ago to History
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An excerpt: "Here’s something else that everyone knows: While a regime of no immigration quotas was a boon to America’s economy in the past, eliminating now the immigration quotas that have been in place since the 1920s would wreak havoc on America’s economy. In this knowledge, however, I believe that what everyone knows is incorrect."

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    Posted by mshupe 1 year, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I think you're right about assimilation. It is irrational to evade important customs that improve one's ability to learn and be productive. However, there is one primary value that drives that; something of which most American citizens are ignorant. There is one primary virtue that identifies Americans.
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    Posted by $ AJAshinoff 1 year, 6 months ago
    The elephant in the room is assimilation. Too many are coming without any desire to become a citizen, only a suckling pig on the teet of out gluttonous foolishness.

    There are areas here in Phoenix where store signs are in Spanish and schools where the population is 97% Mexican. Down around Tucson there are highway signs in metric.

    I’ll read the article shortly but that needed to be said. It’s a damn able thing to feel like a foreigner in your own city.
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    Posted by mshupe 1 year, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes, and will post that as a follow-up. Thanks for the Friedman link.
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  • Posted by j_IR1776wg 1 year, 6 months ago
    "...The worry is that too many immigrants would come not to work, but to free-ride on American taxpayers. In a later column I’ll explain why I believe this worry to be an unpersuasive reason to oppose the elimination of immigration quotas..."

    I will be interested to read his followup to his quote in view of Milton Friedman's quote "...A decade ago, Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman admonished the Wall Street Journal for its idée fixe on open-border immigration policy. "...It's just obvious you can't have free immigration and a welfare state," he warned. This remark adds insight to the current debate over immigration in the U.S. Senate..."

    reported here https://www.heritage.org/immigration/...
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  • Posted by mshupe 1 year, 6 months ago
    Before everyone gets their panties in a wad over "illegal immigration," it may be best to correct the horrid bureaucracy of legal immigration.
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