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On 1/2/2019 at 1:01 AM, nicolasrumet said:

I'm a liberal.

But using tear gas to prevent illegal crossing is not against human rights or anything to be honest.

It was happening under Obama's presidency.

Overwhelming immigration is never the solution. Right now the asylum system is so overwhelmed that real asylum seekers like LGBT members from countries where being gay is punishable by prison or death etc... can't get their claims heard for up to 4 years.

During those years, their life is simply up in the air. They only have short term employment authorizations (hard to find employers who accept those, so they remain jobless for a while), can't visit their families etc...

So the U.S really shouldn't take more people in than it can handle. It'll hurt those same immigrants that it's taking.

The US can accept more tho

 

Here in Canada our immigration rate is triple (3X) the US relative to population  (we accepted 1% equivalent of our population whereas the US accepts some 0.3%  equivalent) and actually helped the economy tremendously by helping offset the aging population

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Melech
6 minutes ago, Economy said:

The US can accept more tho

 

Here in Canada our immigration rate is triple (3X) the US relative to population  (we accepted 1% equivalent of our population whereas the US accepts some 0.3%  equivalent) and actually helped the economy tremendously by helping offset the aging population

Canada has a different kind of immigration though 

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15 minutes ago, Melech said:

Canada has a different kind of immigration though 

I think on a proportional basis we still accept more than the US

 

60% of our Immigrants are "economic immigrants" so that category consists of immigrants that were selected for skills and trades that we have a shortage on and need more people of

 

The other 40% are either family immigrants or refugees that aren't selected based on education or economic reasons

 

40% of 1% of our population annually is still a higher number of low economic grade immigrants proportionally than a higher percentage in the US when they only accept 0.3%

 

Edit: ok seems like last year economic immigrants were 65% because we went above the target but typically it's about 60%

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Melech
38 minutes ago, Economy said:

I think on a proportional basis we still accept more than the US

 

60% of our Immigrants are "economic immigrants" so that category consists of immigrants that were selected for skills and trades that we have a shortage on and need more people of

 

The other 40% are either family immigrants or refugees that aren't selected based on education or economic reasons

 

40% of 1% of our population annually is still a higher number of low economic grade immigrants proportionally than a higher percentage in the US when they only accept 0.3%

 

Edit: ok seems like last year economic immigrants were 65% because we went above the target but typically it's about 60%

Canada takes incredible few compared to Europe. Canada only has one border to the USA. Canada doesn’t need to “worry” about illegal immigration unlike USA or EU. Canada can pick who to let in and who not. 

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2 hours ago, Melech said:

Canada takes incredible few compared to Europe. Canada only has one border to the USA. Canada doesn’t need to “worry” about illegal immigration unlike USA or EU. Canada can pick who to let in and who not. 

No I agree that in terms of illegal immigrants we don't have that same issue and that it's hard for a Country like US bordering a Country like Mexico

 

I'm talking about LEGAL immigrants they can certainly take more if they wanted and they really contribute to economy

 

Our immigration is 340,000 for next year (I forget what this years target is) so it's close to 1% of population I don't know how many Germany takes in must be a lot given the open borders

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Woolfsmck
5 hours ago, Economy said:

The US can accept more tho

 

Here in Canada our immigration rate is triple (3X) the US relative to population  (we accepted 1% equivalent of our population whereas the US accepts some 0.3%  equivalent) and actually helped the economy tremendously by helping offset the aging population

Proportionally , Canada has fewer Cslifornian politicians...so you win.   8-)

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Woolfsmck
1 hour ago, 27monster27 said:

Who did the "LMAO" reaction?

I'm working at it.

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