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Re:Canada's Tech Firms Capitalize On Immigration Anxiety by geodel on Monday June 12, 2017 @07:14PM (#14541889)
> if US continues its systematic and unfair ways of keeping citizens of India and China from immigrating to US

Canadian policy was always much easier than US for immigration. I wonder then why Indian/Chinese did not go in much larger numbers to Canada as compared to US.

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Re:Canada's Tech Firms Capitalize On Immigration Anxiety by desdiv on Monday June 12, 2017 @07:49PM (#14542047)
>I wonder then why Indian/Chinese did not go in much larger numbers to Canada as compared to US.

They did, and they still do:

Canada's percentage of foreign born population: 20.6% [0]

US's percentage of foreign born population: 13% [1]

[0] http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2011/as-sa/99-010-x/99-01...

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brookings-now/2013/10/03/what...

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