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Noah Smith @Noahpinion
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This is so dumb and incorrect and wrong it's unbelievable.
Facts.
Facts!!
Have yet another helping of facts, they're nutritious and delicious
What's that you say? You want even MOAR facts??

...OK.
OK that's enough facts for today! If you've seen all the facts and you still think the U.S. is being swamped by unprecedented waves of migrants...I just don't know what I can do for you. It may be time for you to move to Moldova, or pivot to video, or something. Bye.

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Oh, someone asked me to add more facts, about immigrants' impact on the budget. Here are the baseline estimates from the National Academy of Sciences (nap.edu/catalog/23550/…).
And someone else asked to see the recent immigration breakdown by education status.

As you can see, low-skilled immigration has collapsed (due to the collapse and reversal of illegal immigration).
In fact, Gordon Hanson, Chen Liu, and Craig McIntosh have a whole paper about the collapse of low-skilled immigration in recent years:
gps.ucsd.edu/_files/faculty…
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