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by d3nj4l 461 days ago
> Smart immigrants shouldn't migrate to US anymore, period. Not if you have more than just very short-sighted dollar signs on your eyes. Its just plain out stupid thing to do, to be treated worse than garbage. This is how institutionalized xenophobia looks like.

No. The US is still the best place in the world for immigrants. There's no other place in the world (barring maybe Canada) where as many people from as many other countries and ethnicities can feel welcome and a part of society. I have several friends who move to European countries (mostly Germany but also the Netherlands) and they never felt like they belonged, while in the US I feel like everyone else. What's going on right now is a temporary shift in this policy, but hopefully the pendulum will swing back.
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richev 461 days ago
Nonsense.

Saying that as a European who lived in the US for a few years, now residing in Australia.

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d3nj4l 461 days ago
You're European - you don't understand what it's like as an immigrant from the third world.
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A_D_E_P_T 461 days ago
London at this point is mostly immigrants from the third world. Huge swaths of Frankfurt and Paris are the same way.

Sure, if you immigrate to a random town (population = 1500) in the French Alps from Africa, I grant that you'll never fit in. But the same goes if you immigrate to a small Iowa farming town (population = 1500) from Ecquador.

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