# Should the US lower its immigration numbers?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-us-lower-its-immigration-numbers/568488>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 21, 2011, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-us-lower-its-immigration-numbers/568488 "2011-01-21T20:14:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chen019](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f19dbf/32.png) [@Chen019](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chen019)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2011, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-us-lower-its-immigration-numbers/568488/161 "2011-02-11T23:53:56Z")

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> [@Buck\_Godot](#):
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> Well, we could take care of the numbers of illegals by making it much easier to come in legally, but I doublt you would be in favor of that either. With regard to the historic whiteness of America, California and Arizona were Hispanic long before they were white, and Native American before that. You prefer white culture I get that, but saying that whites have a fundemental right to keep the culture from changing, is as silly as someone saying he likes big band music and so feels there should be measures taken to prevent all of this new hippity hoppity music that’s coming out.
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> I’m clearly not going to convince you, and in the meantime I’ll enjoy my burrittos, Rigatoni and sushi, listen to Salsa and Reggea music, and celebrate St Patrick’s day while not worrying too much about what the future will bring.

And not commenting on any of the reasons I mentioned for lowering immigration.

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> Regarding the US turning into the third world: The main characteristic I associate with the third world is having a bunch of rich elites at the top with all the pwoer and wealth while everyone else is dirt poor, without a middle class to speak of. This uneven wealth distribution is starting to happen in the US, but its the Conservatives rather than the Liberals that are egging it on.

So why would liberals want to increase the number of poor to compete with the existing poor?

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