Re:Trump administration has plan to scrap ‘startup visa’ rule
by Banthum on Thursday June 22, 2017 @01:28AM
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Median age for immigrants to America is 44.
Median age for all Americans is 36.
Sources:
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/frequently-requested-...
http://www.pewhispanic.org/2015/09/28/chapter-5-u-s-foreign-...
Re:Trump administration has plan to scrap ‘startup visa’ rule
by ant6n on Friday June 23, 2017 @07:09AM
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Thank you for backing up my point with some numbers.
In particular see the second link, the age pyramid, showing how there are very few people in the foreign-born population who are younger than 20.
And indeed, when you remove most of the population who are younger than twenty, the medium age of the group overall will increase.
And often they're in they're twenties, meaning society didn't have to pay for the expensive first two decades of growing up. Basically a live is 8 decades, 4 decades of which are unproductive, and 4 decades are productive. If you get an immigrant, you get a 6 decades person that's unproductive for only 2 decades -- and some other society paid for those 2 other unproductive decades.