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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do folks not want more citizens?  Our birthrate is declining. Immigration can save us from the grey spiral.  Do folks not look around?  Look at Europe and Japan (even China now).  Their declining broth rates are going to destroy their economies.  We have (had) hope with immigration.[/quote]

Because they used to be white but now they're brown.

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Because we don’t need nor want 2.5 million additional uneducated, illiterate, unskilled cash pay illegal economic migrants a year nor their 4.38 anchor babies per female. 
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That was your ancestors 120 years ago and here you are![/quote]

Nope they were legal immigrants literate in their own language, educated and skilled.

No ESOL or welfare available for their children.

Plus extensive welfare, tax, and social and public good systems in American did not yet exist. Neither did all 50 states. [/quote]

that might have been you- it was definitely my immigrant parents who had medical degrees and got GCs at the airport! but it was not true for the vast majority of European peasantry that fled to the United States, all this Italians, germans etc were subsistence farmers, some of them were lucky enough to be stone masons/car[enters etc but even those ended up for the most part just doing manual labor unless they were very very lucky.  the US had an explicit policy of restricting citizenship and immigration to "white" populations- those from europe and the levant and they though they were being VERY generous in including Irish, Italians, subjects of the ottoman empire in the category of white. this is why the majority of Americans are of germanic heritage- its b/c that was the poor peasant population that was allowed in from colonial times form the very beginning while peasants from other countries were prohibited and many of those peasants were illiterate.[/quote]

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