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15545313? ago

correction - its 12 in Mexico - only about 2 months ago the last region that held it higher than 12 moved it in line with others.

But here's other arguments that shut down Liberals on migration:

1) You say its good for our 'consumer economy' to take migrants. What are the ethics of us taking consumers from already struggling 3rd world consumer economies ?

2) official Migration tends to be a merit based system. How much more developed would those 3rd world nations be if over the last 5 decades we didnt keep stealing their 'best & brightest' to bring them here so we can congratulate ourselves on being diverse? If we kept them over there and helped them there, they might now have thriving 1st world economies that no longer needed our financial support ...

15548885? ago

The first argument works well if you drop the drop "neo-colonialism." If there reply that they are being compassionate or wanting to help them, remind them that colonialists had the white man's burden to civilize the natives.