Immigration leads to more innovation, a better educated workforce and is all around a VERY good thing.

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    [–]FoxySDT 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    This is not even true. Meta-analysis found that immigration has small negative effect on native wages.

    A 1 percentage pointincrease in the proportion of immigrants in the labour force lowers wages acrossthe investigated studies by only 0.119%

    https://sci-hub.tw/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.0950-0804.2005.00255.x

    Immigration may have positive economic impact when we are talking about European immigrants only but there is no reason to allow others to come.

    [–]Vegethu[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    ration may have positive economic impact when we are t

    Actually it doesnt account just for European immigrants, this data includes immigrants from Mexico, the Middle-East and other non-European countries. Immigration only negatively impacts High School drop outs and only by a marginal amount. I did'nt say there were no negatives but they definitely dont outweigh the benefits.

    Tons of immigrants from non-white countries benefit this country in massive ways. Just look at Nigerians. According to the United Census Bureau, 4 percent of Nigerians hold a PhD. degree compared to 1% of the general US population. Nigerian Americans are a highly educated and well-skilled group of people and perhaps one of the more prosperous ethnic groups in the US.

    [–]FoxySDT 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Actually it doesnt account just for European immigrants, this data includes immigrants from Mexico, the Middle-East and other non-European countries.

    Okay but they didn't distinguish between them. They didn't analyze effect of Mexicans, Africans, Asians,... on education, wages, fiscal impact each separately. This is important because the positive effects of European and Asian immigrants may offset the negative effects of African and Latin American immigrants. They just lumped them all together and proclaimed "Oh look, isn't immigration great?" It could very well be the case that some immigrants are better than others.

    I know this is true for at least for educational attainment, fiscal impact and innovations.