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  1. Bear Ribs

    United States The United States and Immigration Policy

    Funny you should mention that... Ted Cruz has introduced legislation to do so... https://www.cruz.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/20211019_stopthesurge.pdf And DeSantis has stated that migrant flights are coming into Florida without the Floridian government being informed, and he intends to start...
  2. Bear Ribs

    United States The United States and Immigration Policy

    It's always fun to bring up H1-B Visas with Silicon Valley California types who are trying to claim that immigrants are just doing jobs Americans won't. They're always strongly in favor of immigrants in sectors they don't work in, which reduces their cost of living, and spitting mad at the...
  3. Bear Ribs

    United States The United States and Immigration Policy

    Not all illegal immigrants are created equal, so to speak. A student overstaying her visa and getting a job as a nanny for some rich politician in California inflicts relatively little damage to the US compared to somebody crossing the border with five tons of cocaine or fifty children destined...
  4. Bear Ribs

    United States The United States and Immigration Policy

    Done properly, tactical merit based immigration is a powerful weapon. You add irreplaceable people to your country, say, Oppenheimer, and simultaneously deny those other countries the benefits of Oppenheimer. Removing all immigration means [other country] still has an Oppenheimer and you don't.
  5. Bear Ribs

    United States The United States and Immigration Policy

    Not really. "Are you a citizen?" in some form was included on most census forms in history, more often on the "long form" since normally, to save paperwork, the census sends a majority of the population a "short form" that basically just asks age, race, and sex and then every tenth home or so...
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