[N3WBI3]

what a load of crap donna,

How productive has the Vietnamese boat generation been in the US. By enlarge withing 1-2 generations they are mostly educated business owners and professionals.

Read what the statue of liberty says, so long as someone wants to come here and work and leave behind $motherland more power to them.

I say we should *drastically* increase the number of people from Venezuela allowed to come to the US and play it up as ‘allowing Venezuelans who yearn for freedom are welcome here.

[donna]

In 1979, Deng Xiaoping arrived here on an official visit. China was emerging from the Cultural Revolution, and poised to embark on the capitalist road. When President Carter sat down with Mr. Deng, he told him he was concerned over the right of the Chinese people to emigrate. The Jackson-Vanik amendment, Mr. Carter said, prohibited granting most favored nation trade status to regimes that did not allow their people to emigrate.

"Well, Mr. President," Deng cheerfully replied, "Just how many Chinese do you want? Ten million. Twenty million. Thirty million?" Deng's answer stopped Carter cold.

In a few words, the Chinese leader had driven home a point Mr. Carter seemed not to have grasped:

Hundreds of millions of people would emigrate to America in a eyelash, far more than we could take in, far more than our existing population of 270 million, if we threw open our borders. And though the U.S. takes in more people than any other nation, it still restricts immigration to about one million a year, with three or four hundred thousand managing to enter every year illegally.

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