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nextaccounticyesterday at 11:14 PM5 repliesview on HN

All I hear is that there's a subset of people that don't want immigrants at all. And for some godforsaken reason they got hold of the executive, legislative and supreme court


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Jblx2today at 12:10 AM

>a subset of people that don't want immigrants at all.

Does anyone have data on what this percentage is? Seems like it could be 55%:

https://news.gallup.com/poll/647123/sharply-americans-curb-i...

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confuseddesitoday at 1:01 PM

That’s a strawman. There’s wide gulfs between “I want very permissive immigration à la Canada” to “I want the US immigration system as it was under previous administrations” to “I want no immigrants”. For example, I personally want the standards for H1-Bs to be a lot higher, but would willingly grant substantially more immigrant visas to top academics and workers under EB1, EB2 and EB3 visas.

abalashovyesterday at 11:15 PM

That's the only conclusion I can see.

lovichyesterday at 11:58 PM

We’re going for round 3 of jingoist isolationist Americans not understanding how the world or their own culture and government works.

Wonder if we’ll get a third world war that we stay out of until halfway through and then pile on at the end.

Dig1ttoday at 12:59 AM

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