Re: Dean Baker on immigration

Michael Hoover wrote:

as a “receiver,” u.s. has at times excluded persons solely on basis of numbers assumed to be upper limit beyond which neither economy nor society could absorb

As Douglas Massey points out in the interview I just posted a link to, the legal quota for Mexican immigrants into the U.S. is 20,000 a year - the same as Nepal and Botswana. That’s ludicrous.

Doug

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