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Let immigrants save the heartland
Washington Post ^ | 04 20 2204 | Unnamed Editorial Board

Posted on 04/24/2024 11:53:32 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

The population of Providence, R.I., has barely held even since 2020. Had it not been for some 8,300 immigrants who settled in Providence County, it would have shrunk by 1.3 percent by last year. Same in South Bend, Ind., where some 1,700 immigrants into Saint Joseph County barely filled a gap left by locals ditching town.

Immigrants slowed demographic decline in more than 1,100 counties from 2020 to 2023, according to census estimates. Their numbers made up more than the entire growth of the population in 131 of them. The demographic reality casts immigration in a different light, not as a burden but as an opportunity: a powerful tool to lift vast swaths of America that prosperity has left behind.

It would require smart policy and political will — neither of which is plentiful in Washington, but Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) idea of busing migrants to cause political pain in blue jurisdictions could, unwittingly, be put to valuable use: encouraging migrants to rekindle economic development in depopulating cities such as Buffalo, Akron or Detroit, which have struggled to keep up with the economic transformations of the past 30 years.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; heartland; illegalsinvasion; immigrants; invaders; jeffbezos; notimmigrants; treason; wapotreason; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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To: yesthatjallen

Democrats have not yet learned from the lesson generally stated as “If we had known the trouble it would save, we would have just picked the cotton ourselves!”


41 posted on 04/24/2024 12:38:51 PM PDT by Inquiring Minds
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To: Magic Fingers

That is redundant, because quality immigrants such as doctors, scientists, engineers, physicists, Chemists, mathematicians, etc almost NEVER come across the border illegally.


42 posted on 04/24/2024 12:40:24 PM PDT by Bobbyvotes (I will be voting for Trump/whoever in November. If he loses in 2024, country is toast.)
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To: cpdiii

“Send me your engineers, your doctors, tradesmen, electricians, geologists, chemists, nurses etc.”

Have you tried to get into an American university for those disciplines lately?

It’s hyper competitive. White males basically need not apply. The schools are full of the children of the aliens.

White fraction of the student body at San Jose State: 13%.

In 1980 that would be like 75%. The city of San Jose is still 25% White, was also 70% as recently as mid 80s...and for the prior 100 years.

We don’t need ANY “immigrants”. Haven’t for decades. Just need to go back to the family culture that was commonplace prior to 1965.


43 posted on 04/24/2024 12:41:18 PM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: McGavin999

I see your point. Since we cap legal immigration in mere thousands and illegals are in the millions, its not a lot of difference anymore.

Relatively speaking.


44 posted on 04/24/2024 12:42:25 PM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: Grampa Dave
Add Portland, Seattle, Denver, Austin and Houston to your list.

In the 1980s Austin was the greatest little city in the United States. It prided itself on being weird but it was still a safe but sane city with a slightly left of center population. It was and is a party town.

The University of Texas has destroyed the Austin of old. UT is a left wing ideological propaganda center and its ideals have poisoned Austin. Today Austin is "Berkley on the Colorada." Austin is lost.

45 posted on 04/24/2024 12:54:01 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter-deckhand-oilfield roughneck-drilling fluids tech-geologist-pilot-instructor-pharmacist)
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To: yesthatjallen
Like they saved their own countries? LOL. These pepole a wortheless parasites and gibs-me-dats looking for free stuff. They aren't refugees from opression. They just want free sport shoes.

46 posted on 04/24/2024 12:54:26 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: yesthatjallen
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47 posted on 04/24/2024 1:03:51 PM PDT by cuz1961
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To: Adder

We accept a million legal immigrants a year. That number can’t be increased because of all the illegals and “asylum seekers”.

They need to go through all these refugee areas and root out all the anti American creeps and send them home, find every illegal who has taken taxpayer money and deport them too.


48 posted on 04/24/2024 1:38:49 PM PDT by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore…)
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To: yesthatjallen
HEADLINE: Let immigrants save illegal aliens conquer the heartland

There. I fixed it.

49 posted on 04/24/2024 1:50:55 PM PDT by Gritty (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution. - Saul Alinsky)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Maybe immigrants should start by saving Martha’s Vineyard.


no no. Those that were taken there are now getting criminal green cards because they were so grievously wronged by the criminals that took them there.


50 posted on 04/24/2024 2:24:35 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: yesthatjallen

Even black people, the democrat’s favorite pets, don’t like alien invaders. The fascists at the Washington Post will never ask blacks why they don’t like invaders. It would destroy the rapidly crumbling rat coalition.


51 posted on 04/24/2024 3:28:27 PM PDT by sergeantdave (AI training involves stealing content from creators and not paying them a penny)
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To: yesthatjallen

Immigrants who come the lawful way do good things.


52 posted on 04/24/2024 3:30:54 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: yesthatjallen
The demographic reality casts immigration in a different light, not as a burden but as an opportunity: a powerful tool to lift vast swaths of America that prosperity has left behind.

A good portion of adults here in flyover country are on disability, not because they're disabled, but because there's not enough jobs to go around.

Importing more unskilled workers isn't going to help.

53 posted on 04/24/2024 3:39:38 PM PDT by Pollard ( )
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To: cpdiii

Pro Hamas protesters in Austin are shut down!

Pro Hamas idiots at UT Austin discover what happens why you try to pull a Columbia in Texas!:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1783202234085315007


54 posted on 04/24/2024 3:51:44 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ((“Surrender often myeans wisely accommodating to what is beyond our control!” — Sylvia Boorstein.))
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To: yesthatjallen

They’re talking outright colonization and we pay the freight.


55 posted on 04/24/2024 4:18:09 PM PDT by dljordan (What do you think?)
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To: yesthatjallen

Get a pet and have it neutered. A whole lot cheaper and more fun.


56 posted on 04/24/2024 5:47:15 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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To: yesthatjallen

I thought bussing illegals around was racist and criminal.


57 posted on 04/24/2024 6:13:51 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: yesthatjallen

There are no jobs and not enough resources for them in the heartland. Natural born Americans have trouble finding work and a decent doctor in the heartland. These people are so out of touch.


58 posted on 04/24/2024 8:16:45 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: yesthatjallen

Rhode Island needed to cheat in the census to keep both congressional seats. That’s what this is about: offsetting blue state population decline, and maybe turning some red states blue.

The government has been committed to offshoring manufacturing for years. The illegals won’t be revitalizing US manufacturing. Some of them will be taking jobs away from the native-born poor though. The rest will provide jobs to government social service workers.


59 posted on 04/24/2024 8:35:19 PM PDT by x
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To: cpdiii

America stopped all immigration for 40 years and we should do that again.

STOP ALL IMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES!


60 posted on 04/26/2024 6:19:32 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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