Re New Trump Deportation Rules

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Karl Auerbach <karl () cavebear com>
> Date: February 22, 2017 at 8:12:06 PM EST
> To: dave () farber net, ip <ip () listbox com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Re New Trump Deportation Rules
>
>
> With regard to the cost of immigrants I have heard that if one looks at long term demographic trends the US *needs* 
> immigrants for us to have a healthy age distribution.
>
> Also, I have long wondered about a particular moment of inflection: The moment that a person realizes that he/she 
> must leave the known world that is "home" and relocate to a foreign place.  My sense is that this is often a 
> wrenching experience, and generally harder for those with more years than for those with fewer.
>
> So when I see a group laboring in a field of strawberries or standing in the parking lot of a Home Depot I tend to 
> think that what we have here is the self-selected cream of the crop in terms of people who have demonstrated an 
> ability to make hard decisions and follow through.  Is that not exactly the kind of talent and initiative that we 
> want in our future workers, friends, and citizens?
>
> Even if absorbing the a first generation of immigrants incurs a cost, don't we stand to reap far greater long term 
> gains as the second, and especially the third and subsequent, generations blend into our national culture (and we, at 
> least to a small extent, blend into theirs)?
>
>    --karl--



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