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Bloomberg Opinion writer. Elected "top neoliberal shill" of 2018. Occasionally posts anime gifs.

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    1. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 27

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      I think most people have both intellectual and deeper, visceral reasons for the policies they promote. When people ask me why I defend immigration...Yes, there are lots of good intellectual reasons, but also, *it's what I grew up with*.https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1056206835810791425 …

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      3/As Tomas Jimenez writes in "The Other Side of Assimilation", for my generation, immigrants from India, China, Mexico, and many other countries aren't strange or foreign. On the contrary, they're a fixture. https://www.amazon.com/Other-Side-Assimilation-Immigrants-Changing/dp/0520295706 …
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    2. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 27

      Anti-immigration people constantly struggle to figure out why I support immigration. Is it because I want more votes for the Democratic party? Is it a scheme to make America less white? Is it a neoliberal plot to reduce wages? They just don't understand.

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      Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 27

      What they don't understand is that, like most people, I instinctively want to restore the America of my youth. And since I grew up under Reagan, Clinton, and Bush, my America was an America with immigrants. It was part of our communities, our culture, and our national story.

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        2. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 27

          Immigration was part of the fabric of daily life and community, but it was also a *nationalist* thing. We told ourselves that America, our country, was great because it was a nation of immigrants. That our nation took people from anywhere and uplifted them, gave them a shot.

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        3. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 27

          Immigrants were great people, of course. They were my friends' parents. They introduced me to interesting things. But on top of that, their presence symbolized the greatness of a nation that I felt I belonged to.

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        4. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 27

          Without immigration, we were - what? Just like all those other countries, which I imagined (not correctly, but not entirely incorrectly either) as closed-off societies that defined themselves by race, ancestry, and pedigree.

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        5. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 27

          In fact, I still believe something like this, though now I've seen with my own eyes the power of the xenophobic backlash that has also occasionally defined America throughout its history. I believe we have the power to stop that backlash if we want.

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        6. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 27

          The America of the 1990s and 2000s is gone now (and yes, parts of it needed to go). But I want the new America that emerges from our current time of troubles to retain the essential elements of the America I believed in when I was young. And immigration is one of those.

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        7. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 27

          This is not to say that there aren't also very good intellectual, pragmatic justifications for immigration. There are plenty. But for anyone who wondered about why I'm *emotionally* invested in the issue...well, there you go. (end)

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        1. TeD‏ @tdubey Oct 27
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          Isn't this justification about the stock, which is still the same, if not more, whereas the debate generally is about the flow ?

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        1. gobble quack‏ @duckquack20 Oct 27
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          There’s a good piece lurking in here about what our immigration policies looked like then and what they’d look like now if we extrapolated based on population increases

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        1. Phoenix34‏ @Phoenix3413 Oct 27
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          Immigration should be 90 percent merit and 10 percent humanitarian.

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