The leaders of the Democratic Party must be honest about the real effects of immigration
Everyone will not gain today, even if everyone may gain tomorrow.
There are about 50 million foreign-born people in the United States. In a nation of about 330 million, that is around 14 percent of the population. That is a sharp rise from around 5 percent in 1970. Since 2001 nearly 1 million legal immigrants have entered the US each year.
I can imagine in broad strokes how liberals would interpret these statistics.
So…
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