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They're (still) Americans.

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Yes but the point is that anti-immigrant demagoguery is about to slow immigration and weaken our future.

[vovavili]

That seems like a wildly irrelevant claim in the context of this conversation.

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It's direct and blatantly relevant to the discussion that the transformer was invented in America and the cited role of immigrants in that invention, resultingly showing how ending immigration will impact future innovation.