How Immigrants Assimilate into American Society
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No, there has been a lot of talk of closing our borders and reducing the numbers of legal immigrants or of certain groups.
Some advocate reducing immigration to 250K a year (it's around 1.5 million now) in order to keep the US population from growing as quickly.
The justifications range from business to environmental to ethnic concerns.
Some advocate reducing immigration to 250K a year (it's around 1.5 million now) in order to keep the US population from growing as quickly.
The justifications range from business to environmental to ethnic concerns.
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As far as legal immigration, it varies based on WHY they want to reduce it. To oversimplify, liberals are more likely to support the environmental or population growth argument, conservatives for demographic reasons.
Illegal immigration is definitely more of a conservative issue at the moment.
But frankly, I don't think most things can be easily boiled down to liberal vs. conservative anyway - SO SICK OF THAT.
Illegal immigration is definitely more of a conservative issue at the moment.
But frankly, I don't think most things can be easily boiled down to liberal vs. conservative anyway - SO SICK OF THAT.
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Sometimes, a container can only hold so many oz. of water...if you continue to allow the faucet to run, there is an overflow...this overflow runs all over the counter and soon begins to drip to the floor. I think of the United States as the container, we can only support so many folks, there are only so many jobs, so many doctors, so many government programs, so many classrooms etc. It would be great if we could allow everyone to join "our container", but that just doesn't work. When we as a country decided to ignore our illegal immigrants we did an injustice to those that wished to come here legally.
In 1990, Congress passed a law limiting the number of legal immigrants to 700,000 (yet, this was an increase from 500,000). We had a Republican President, but a Democratic House and Senate. We have exceeded that number for legal immigrants as well as illegal immigrants, I think every year.
This is not a left vs. right issue. It has been an rising issue for over a century and Dems as well as Reps have tried to determine the best way to handle healthy numbers of immigration here, in addition to dealing with illegal immigration of which we have granted amnesty at least seven times. (Our Founding Fathers were also concerned with assimilation of certain regional emigrants.) There is also a great deal of data supporting just how well legal immigrants do indeed assimilate once here.
It incenses me to see articles as this posted by goodwitch specifically denigrating one party or the other (the slanted verbiage is the issue)......it's an opinion of that author and not completely factual.
This is not a left vs. right issue. It has been an rising issue for over a century and Dems as well as Reps have tried to determine the best way to handle healthy numbers of immigration here, in addition to dealing with illegal immigration of which we have granted amnesty at least seven times. (Our Founding Fathers were also concerned with assimilation of certain regional emigrants.) There is also a great deal of data supporting just how well legal immigrants do indeed assimilate once here.
It incenses me to see articles as this posted by goodwitch specifically denigrating one party or the other (the slanted verbiage is the issue)......it's an opinion of that author and not completely factual.