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Paul Krugman @paulkrugman
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Trump and company are going after legal immigration, including high-skill immigrants. Think about that, and how it strikes at the one of the key pillars of US strength 1/
I don't remember who said it, but one historian of science talked about how refugees from Hitler helped build US preeminence, that while British universities viewed taking them in as an obligation, US universities saw it as an opportunity 2/
Our technological leadership in recent decades has depended crucially on East and South Asian immigrants; they make Silicon Valley possible. And what attracts them isn't just the financial rewards, it's the openness of our society 3/
Put it this way: you can't build a dynamic economy or society out of bitter old white men who see smart immigrants as a threat to their privileges. Yet that's what Trumpism tries to empower 4/
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