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Re:I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks by rayiner on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @11:06AM (#43412991)
That’s just short-termism. In the long run, participative democracy can’t survive without an assimilated polity. And you can’t have assimilation if you can’t control the rate of immigration. At a certain point the foreigners will turn America into the country they came from. It has happened before (compare say New Jersey to New Hampshire).
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Re:I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks by cratermoon on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @11:20AM (#43413184)
> At a certain point the foreigners will turn America into the country they came from.

You say that like it's a bad thing. OH NOES the US will become more democratic and equitable and less racist and hateful

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Re:I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks by rayiner on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @01:33PM (#43414977)
> OH NOES the US will become more democratic and equitable and less racist and hateful

If those countries are “more democratic and equitable and less racist and hateful” then why are people coming here?

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Re:I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks by jakelazaroff on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @12:38PM (#43414277)
To be clear, this is just unabashed xenophobia; there’s absolutely no basis in fact for what you’re saying.
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Re:I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks by rayiner on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @01:10PM (#43414663)
“Xenophobia” is when you make a stereotype about an individual based on their nationality. The concept doesn’t make sense applied to immigration when you’re talking about large groups of people that have cultural characteristics that manifest in the aggregate.

Importing large groups of people who have a different culture poses risks. Countries aren’t defined by rules on paper. They are manifestations of the people who live in them and their culture. Culturr is destiny: https://paulbacon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/z.... And culture is extremely sticky: https://www.sup.org/books/economics-and-finance/culture-tran....

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