Comment by giraffe_lady
15 hours ago
> Voters don't want a streamlined and efficient immigration system that lawfully allows a lot of migrants
There was a really interesting open ended survey some years ago, in the leadup to the trump/clinton election but I can't find it now sorry.
When republicans voters were asked to describe their preferred immigration policies, they outline a stance significantly more permissive and flexible, and less burdensome, than the one we currently have. More liberal than the reality, in other words.
People don't know what the immigration policies are and so they can't know what they should be either. The anti-immigration sentiment is a stunning propaganda victory decades in the making, no more.
Yes, that's my experience when having to explain what getting a greencard entails, most people have no idea how the whole thing works.
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This is a non-sequitur response to the thread.
"Turns out that most people actually want a more liberal immigration system than we currently have when surveyed"
"That lines up with my experience describing the greencard process to others"
"Well immigration should not be easy"
Your personal opinions on immigration are not really relevant to the topic.
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Is self-determination a human right? We certainly decided a lot of nations to the south of us didn't deserve that right. Look up the history of the banana republics some time.
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