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View Poll Results: Do you support tougher, merit based immigration measures?
Yes 150 87.72%
No 21 12.28%
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Old 11-03-2017, 12:11 AM
 
Location: Canada
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Canada’s current immigration policy is driven by its aging population:

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In 1971 there were 6.6 people of working age for each senior, but by 2012 that ratio had gone to 4.2 to 1 and projections show it will be at 2 to 1 by 2036, when almost 100% of population growth will be a result of immigration; it stands at about 75% today.
Canada to admit nearly 1 million immigrants over next 3 years - CBC News

The current median age in Canada is 42 versus 38 in the U.S.
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Old 11-03-2017, 12:18 AM
 
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Define merit based immigration. I have a feeling Melania would not have qualified
Can you show me anything she was a leech on the taxpayers?
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Old 11-03-2017, 12:22 AM
 
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Yes, however, this country still needs a ton of unskilled labor whether folks wanna admit it or not.
go through the welfare rolls and ask who wants a job. Its not that hard.
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Old 11-03-2017, 05:17 AM
 
Location: Florida
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Canada’s current immigration policy is driven by its aging population:

Canada to admit nearly 1 million immigrants over next 3 years - CBC News

The current median age in Canada is 42 versus 38 in the U.S.
Same is true in Europe. Germany needs immigrants. Anyone who says "we have enough people already" clearly are not in touch with reality, and it driven only by emotions
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Old 11-03-2017, 05:24 AM
 
Location: Native of Any Beach/FL
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Splitting up families? WTF? Whoever applied to come here made the choice to split the family. Get real.
what will you do if your family's country- becomes a gang war zone, they will rape our daughter and send your boy out to fight for them and the work dries up? see walk in their shoes-- before making a statement --
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Old 11-03-2017, 05:37 AM
 
Location: Native of Any Beach/FL
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An example would be someone like Einstein or Von Braun who has something to contribute to the country.
Do you know that others besides Europeans have made great contributions to society.?? I bet you do not


I will show you two YOU USE!!

1. The colour TV. Born in Guadalajara Mexico, Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena was an electrical engineer credited with the invention of a colour-wheel type of television. His was the first colour TV patented in the US and Mexico, and is still used by NASA today.
2- The ballpoint pen. László József Biró, Argentinian by naturalization and Hungarian by birth, was a journalist and inventor. He designed a pen with oil-based ink and a tungsten ball that allowed the ink to roll smoothly on to paper.



https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/...n_5052118.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_Americans

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/...tin%20america/
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Old 11-03-2017, 05:50 AM
 
Location: New York
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what will you do if your family's country- becomes a gang war zone, they will rape our daughter and send your boy out to fight for them and the work dries up? see walk in their shoes-- before making a statement --
These countries become gang infested war zones because of the people. There is no "magic dirt" in America. If we continue to import the third world then we become the third world.
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Old 11-03-2017, 08:55 AM
 
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Canada’s current immigration policy is driven by its aging population:



Canada to admit nearly 1 million immigrants over next 3 years - CBC News

The current median age in Canada is 42 versus 38 in the U.S.

Yet we allow in 1 million immigrants every single year not to mention refugees and illegal aliens. This has got to stop so we can get this population growth under control. We just can't afford it anymore.
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Old 11-03-2017, 09:05 AM
 
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Trump's idea of merit based is either unskilled workers for his resorts or hot eastern European women.
Link to back up that statement.
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Old 11-03-2017, 10:21 AM
 
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Canada’s current immigration policy is driven by its aging population:



Canada to admit nearly 1 million immigrants over next 3 years - CBC News

The current median age in Canada is 42 versus 38 in the U.S.
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Same is true in Europe. Germany needs immigrants. Anyone who says "we have enough people already" clearly are not in touch with reality, and it driven only by emotions
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Yet as a US citizen, it is extremely difficult, if not impossible to immigrate to those countries. But they happily let in the third world. Strange how countries that have advocates claiming they "need immigrants" put up numerous barriers for people from western countries like the US to immigrate there.


Exactly how many people do those countries need? One billion? 10 billion? Exactly what is the population those countries need?
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