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jimbob45 on July 20, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023

There’s a very interesting question to be answered as to whether more high-quality immigrants come through legal immigration or illegal immigration.

Legal immigration is more likely to bring those you actively desire via quotas. Still illegal immigration has the advantage of raw numbers.

There’s also the question of how many 2nd/3rd generation immigrants go on to become high-quality from each group.

zozbot234 on July 21, 2024 [–]

There's absolutely nothing preventing large "raw numbers" of legal skilled immigrants to high-income countries, except policy choices that are overtly hostile towards increasing legal immigration.

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