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A comment on Visualizing Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration. Parent comment

Re:Visualizing Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration by dragonwriter on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @12:54PM (#17135689)
> limiting 1/3rd of the world population (India + China) to 10% of immigration slots by definition

They are limited to 14% of, separately, the limited employment and family-based visa categories, not 10% (the per country limit is 7%) and not of total immigration.

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Re:Visualizing Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration by toasterlovin on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @01:11PM (#17135867)
Yeah, I defer to your knowledge of the matter. I was responding to the person's assertion that you can optimize for both diversity and merit.
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