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Re:Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa progr... by juniper_strong on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @07:29PM (#24703675)
> In the US, over 3 million Puerto Ricans are now allowed to migrate to the mainland US (say to DC). The borders are completely open to them. In Europe, similarly, around 20M Romanians are allowed to Sweden. But they don’t

According to Wikipedia, as of 2018 there were 5.8 million Puerto Ricans living stateside. The population of Puerto Rico is around 2.8 million. There are more than twice as many Puerto Ricans living on the mainland as there are in Puerto Rico.

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Re:Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa progr... by jeromegv on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @10:33PM (#24704778)
This number includes people with Puerto Ricans ancestry (therefore not born in Puerto Rico). Some of them might have migrated out of Puerto Rico 100 years ago, I don't think looking at number is relevant at all to this discussion.
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Re:Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa progr... by runarberg on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @07:49PM (#24703817)
This only makes my point against the GP stronger. So half the population of Puerto Rico has already migrated to the mainland US, without anything terrible happening to the mainland US as a result.

The myths about the negative consequences of open border policy have no basis in reality.

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Re:Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa progr... by travisoneill1 on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @08:36PM (#24704112)
You are aware that China is a lot bigger than Puerto Rico, right?
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Re:Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa progr... by Sessions on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @08:00PM (#24703896)
That is an entirely different point than the one you made in your previous response.
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Re:Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa progr... by runarberg on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @12:20AM (#24705266)
Indeed, but the two points complement each other.

Most people don’t migrate away from their home country/state. But even if they did, it would be of no negative consequence for the place they migrate to.

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