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0 pointsdefrost1d ago0 comments

Measured as a percentage of population, this graph:

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/imm...

shows the USofA having much the same level of immigration as it had from 1860 through until 1920.

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Holy shit, we've gone form 4.5% of the pop and 10M to 14.5% to 50M?(!)in 40 years since 1970? Isn't that alarming? we are at the same level of immigration as the potato famine?

Also, check the definition of that chart... We have far more "illegal immigration" today than we did back in 1890. So.... egg zack ly. Don't you think that's a big problem considering our current size? I'm all for 'some' immigration, but the level we are at today is totally unsustainable when we have an absolute homeless epidemic in all of our cities?

defrostOP18h ago

  Holy shit, we've gone form 4.5% of the pop and 10M to 14.5% to 50M?(!)in 40 years since 1970?

You (the UsofA) have returned to 1860-1920 levels, yes.

  Isn't that alarming?

No.

  We have far more "illegal immigration" today than we did back in 1890.

But the same level of immigration ... the problem lies with classification and stalled paperwork pipelines.

  Don't you think that's a big problem considering our current size?

The US has increased in size with the addition of Alaska and Hawaii in 1959, but still appears to have room for people.

   I'm all for 'some' immigration, but the level we are at today is totally unsustainable when we have an absolute homeless epidemic in all of our cities?

Is that a statement of fact, an opinion, or a question?

Are you certain that all US cities have "an absolute homeless epidemic"?

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