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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes. [b]By far.  There is nowhere else in the world with a little bit of hustle that an immigrant can buy/own a 3 bedroom 2 bath brick rancher within 10-15 years of migrating to the US.[/b]

Billions of people in the world live in cardboard shacks with no way out.[/quote]

Sorry, no. The rest of the world has places where immigrants can do this. For one example, Canada:

1. Rola Dagher came from Lebanon in the 90s as a teenage refugee. She quickly worked her way up through the Dell business ranks and has been the president and CEO of Cisco Canada since 2017.

2. Susur Lee, the celebrity chef, immigrated to Canada at 20 in 1978 and was an executive chef within 6 years, and was opening his first restaurant of his own in 9 years.

3. Nav Bhatia immigrated to Canada from India in 1984 and could not find work as an engineer, so he took his first sales job selling cars. He bought his first car dealership 2 years later.

4. Selwyn Collaco immigrated to Canada in 1996 with just $700 in his pocket. Fifteen years later, he had worked his way up to a senior director at CIBC bank. He's currently the chief data officer of the Toronto Stock Exchange.

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Look. Pointing this out doesn't mean I don't think the USA is great. It is. And we don't have to lie about the rest of the world being a dead zone for immigrant prosperity to admit that.

When you overclaim on these things, you make this country look weak. Other countries can be great, too, and that does not take away from what the USA has. Don't make us look weak. [/quote]

It's funny because Canada is a lot harder to immigrate to than the US. They don't let any schmo wall over the border and stay like we do.[/quote]

Of course, you are probably referring to the points system, which (as I am sure you know) does not apply to many of the immigration routes, including as a refugee. Canada accepted 130,000 refugees in 2021, and the US accepted just under 12,000. The US has 9 times the population of Canada. Which isn't to make any claims about that -- just stating the numbers so we can be clear in conversation.[/quote]
dp.. also, the US also doesn't share a border with a poorer region.  I'm sure if Canada was the one to share a border with MX, you'd Canada inundated with illegal immigrants as well.[/quote]

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