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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whether legal or illegal, it isn’t good for us to just open the floodgates and let whoever wants to gush in. It needs to be a measured flow, and sadly that means not everyone will be able to come.

Levels must be controlled in order not to strain resources. Too many new workers at once put downward pressure on wages and standards.

Also, I do not want us to become like London.
We are a diverse control but we do share culture and values and it’s not good to have people coming in who have no interest in assimilating.[/quote]

Having grown up with many friends who were all first generation (Haitian, Greek, Peruvian, Italian, Indian/Hindu, Indian/Seikh, Thai, and more), I think the assimilation concerns are overblown. Inevitably, the kids assimilate. Even years ago, immigrant parents wanted their kids to marry into the same culture/religion and inevitably every friend married outside of it. I think the assimilation concern is fear mongering propaganda from Republicans and my lives experience anecdotally contradicts it.

FWIW, I do not believe religious extremists have a place in our government, but that includes Christian extremists. Look at a lot of the misogynistic talk from the Christian right like Hegseth basically supporting repealing women's right to vote or revering a guy like Charlie Kirk who believed women should submit to their husbands (heck, even Laura Ingalls Wilder rejected that one in the late 1800s). I don't get why Republicans accept that yet would get mad if a Muslim leader said it. [/quote]

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