Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Immigration: Social Costs vs. Economic Benefits || Peter Zeihan" video.

  1. There's also a big difference in what used to be considered "legal", especially in the past few decades. Most Americans descend from those who merely survived a boat ride across the Atlantic, either came from Europe or Africa (as a slave), and weren't hacking up a lung on arrival; hardly any checks on criminal history or even identity, instead were even offered an opportunity for a legal change of name. Fast forward to the end of the Cold War -- along with empathy for those trying to escape Communist movements -- where the ever-tightening restrictions for a "legal" immigration means that even my own parents -- who both made their own way in before the Soviet collapse and are now retired American public servants -- would find it enormously difficult to get their green cards under the current policies, and probably ending up either stuck at home or someplace that doesn't assimilate new faces nearly as readily.
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