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philg_jr | 10 months ago

Not with immigration.

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ezst|10 months 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|10 months ago

What, non-migrant Americans are not up to it?

slt2021|10 months 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.

peterfirefly|10 months 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|10 months ago

Indian Americans make the most money in America, I’m sure immigrants can be capable

spaceman_2020|10 months 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

_t9ow|10 months ago

Immigration will take a nosedive under Trump.