American Dream Ends in Deportation

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If we took on every person who yearned for a better life, America would become a third world nation.

This is not the 'give me your tired, your poor! etc' of the America from the past....this is now a colonized land with its own people. Simple mathematics can illustrate how the immigration policy of the past cannot sustain itself in future.

No one's suggesting that everyone be allowed in, but shouldn't there a happy medium between "give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, etc" and "only family members and those with extraordinary abilities allowed in?"

I can definitely understand the U.S. not wanting to flood itself, but I think on some level, it's a bit too difficult to become a permanent resident in this country, let alone a citizen.

The US is unusual in western countries in favouring family immigratioon versus work immigration.

But under whatever system, the vast majority would not qualify, by definition. So we are only talking about the margin.

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I imagine the idea behind not favoring work immigration is that a foreigner would be taking a job from an American. At least that used to be the old way of thinking. Back when immigrants came through Ellis Island, if you were an immigrant and you mentioned that you had a job waiting for you in the U.S., it was "back on the boat" for you. Interestingly enough, as soon as you made it through and got onto the mainland, you were expected to find work and not become a public charge.

I wonder how all of that works nowadays...