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How about door 3: only allow immigration for skilled individuals capable of adding outsized value to our economy?
As a person who can be described that way: why would I want to migrate to any country whose leaders were elected on a platform of hating migrants?

"Oh but not like you, you're one of the good ones!" - imagine yourself being described that way, and ask if that's a crowd you care to spend your time living with.

>why would I want to migrate to any country whose leaders were elected on a platform of hating migrants?

Well, for one: cutting back on illegal immigrants and hating immigrants are not the same thing.

Two: stay where you are? I don't get what your expectations are here. Plenty of skilled immigrants love the US. If it's not your cup of tea, that's fine.

1. Illegal immigration is already illegal. Cutting back on it is tangential to every other statement about promoting, limiting, or targeting migration.

2. I'm responding to a comment that says "How about door 3: only allow immigration for skilled individuals capable of adding outsized value to our economy?"

And in my capacity as such a person: that attitude makes me not interested in anything else on the table. Hypothetically to demonstrate the point: You could offer me your entire GDP, even after accounting for a business plan where I somehow specifically help you double it, as pay… and I'd turn you down.

Remember that the current state of immigration in the USA is exactly what was being proposed to be changed: the previous desirability is specifically not going to remain.

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As another skilled immigrant, this is exactly what I want.
> why would I want to migrate to any country whose leaders were elected on a platform of hating migrants?

"Hating migrants" != "want only the migrants that pull their own weight"

Why would you personally want to immigrate to a place where you are immediately expected to foot the bill for everyone else?

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