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Originally Posted by Chi-Sky21
Not sure you want that kind of population growth. Not only do we have to foot the bill and expend resources we do not have a ton of, but there is no guarantee they even get to get asylum and stay. Honestly, all need to be stopped AT the border and wait someplace else to get processed. I have no problem with allowing more immigrants in. We can increase the quotas. But letting 100s of thousands of people come in unvetted and with no personal resources is pure lunacy.
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Chicagoans 1850: Not sure if we want that kind of population growth.
Look, we’re talking millions of migrants to the U.S. in the foreseeable future, and we are probably well past the point where deportation is an actionable plan.
Chicago is the city that historically turned millions of resource-less people into middle-class Americans, and we struggle deeply in times of low immigration, because native born Americans outside the Midwest were rarely motivated to move to Chicago.
I wouldn’t bet a dime that the U.S. will ever increase legal immigration quotas.
And it’s hard to understate how much Chicago has the Mexican population (many of whom were not exactly legal either) to thank for much of its existing relative stability compared to other rust belt cities.