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Last Checked March 19, 2019

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Wed Mar 13 13:52:53 +0000 2019

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Especially since the main downside of less-skilled immigration is distributional, a higher flow of highly skilled immigrants would make openness to less-skilled ones more clearly beneficial. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 13, 2019 Hibernated

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Trying to be smarter about which immigrants get to move here makes sense to me, but to the extent we’re confident we can improve selection and then we should allow more immigration not less. — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Friesen @friesen5000

Lengthy but worthwhile read. “The question before the United States and other advanced countries is not: Immigratio… https://t.co/gkMBniD51B

Posted March 13, 2019 Hibernated

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We are going to hit political constraints of xenophobia and aversion to house-building long before we hit an actual optimal level of immigration, take-mongers should be discouraging irrational fears not stoking them. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 13, 2019 Hibernated

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