Yup. Mistreating Central Americans at the border doesn't stop them from coming. BUT, Central American immigration will soon trickle off of its own accord, allowing the Trump people to claim that their inhumane policies worked.https://twitter.com/LoebVernon/status/1052302635590664194 …
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You don't think the Great Recession played a major part in slowing down or even reversing Mexican immigration?
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It was the trigger, but the trend has persisted since then. The underlying drivers were low fertility and GDP growth.
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Isn't their GDP down from 2014?
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Here's PPP in case you cared: https://tradingeconomics.com/mexico/gdp-per-capita-ppp …pic.twitter.com/9T4sHnkYwH
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I was looking at nominal using World Bank and they have it dipping. Per Capita as well.pic.twitter.com/h2gFgZuCNa
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That's just from their currency getting cheaper (google "peso to dollar" to see the decline). Gotta look at real or PPP (the two graphs I sent you) to see the true picture.
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Do you have anything on recent trends with median household income. I know it was close to stagnant from 1992 to 2010. Has it gown up noticeably since then?
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The future of US immigration is likely to be mostly Asian and African.
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Going to be a different Asian mix. Less East Asian countries
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Also probably correct. Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan are all starting to recruit immigrants on a large scale for the first time, and fewer Chinese will emigrate as things continue to improve there. From India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Vietnam likely to increase.
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Will be interesting to see if that causes backlash from the right wing, since those countries tend to be non-Christian
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There’s already backlash from the right against immigration of Latino Christians. They’ll be even more hysterical when a large fraction of immigrants are Muslim or African. But hopefully they’ll be politically marginalized by then. Immigration has been very positive for America.
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I know.....it is just that I notice that many of them don't realize what will happen if USA goes on "merit" system. They do not realize that will lead to more non-Christian immigrants.
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Stephen Miller thinks a system prioritizing English speaking college grads would bring in British and Australians. More likely they wouldn’t want to move, and Indians, Pakistanis, and Nigerians would dominate that system.
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