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Is the country full? No of course it isn’t. Have you tried flying over it lately?... Net immigration brings people, economic activity, jobs and taxes; businesses flourish where the population is growing and they suffer where it is not... So what is the argument about? Politics, mainly. Legal immigrants... are helping to turn the Southwest from red to blue... a mortal threat — to the leadership of the Republican Party. There’s also the appeal, in some parts of the country, to fear of ‘the other.’ (en) |
