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pnako
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Zero-sum thinking on immigration will make America...
Because most countries don't have huge immigration programs like this in the first place.
logicchains
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If we use "percentage of the population born overseas" as a metric, quite a few countries have larger immigration programs than the US:
https://data.oecd.org/migration/foreign-born-population.htm
pnako
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Your source is the OECD, which is basically just Western, developed countries.
If you look at the entire world, the picture is different.
anigbrowl
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The US has had a huge immigration program (although it has waxed and waned) over many years because settling vast tracts of land requires a lot of human labor. Same story in Australia.
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